Dissonance
Encyclopedia
Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:
- Consonance and dissonanceConsonance and dissonanceIn music, a consonance is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance , which is considered to be unstable...
in music are properties of an interval or chord - Cognitive dissonanceCognitive dissonanceCognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Dissonance is also reduced by justifying,...
is a state of mental conflict - Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonanceAssonanceAssonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the is repeated within the sentence and is...
, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphonyEuphonyPhonaesthetics is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty or unpleasantness of the sound of certain words and sentences. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose...
. - Dissonance (album)Dissonance (album)Dissonance is the 12th studio album from the band Enuff Z'Nuff. The album reunites singers / songwriters Donnie Vie and Chip Z'Nuff after Vie's hiatus from the band of several years...
, a 2009 album by Enuff Z'Nuff