Word: dissonante
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Cleveland had the 1924 G. O. P. convention. Chicago had five in a row before that. Chicago has had nine Republican conventions since the G. O. Party nominated its second candidate (Abraham Lincoln) there in 1860. The National Republican executive secretary (Lawyer Roy Owen West) is a Chicagoan, and, despite...
But gossip, tales of little doings of important and unimportant people, is always half the news. In the small towns on the boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial...
Prokoflew is little known in this country outside of his opera "The Love for the Three Oranges" and two piano concertos, due to the unfavorable condition of Russian music publishing houses. In Paris his reputation ranks with that of Strawinsky, and his "Song Without Words" written for Mme. Koshetz seems...
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has...
Most dissonant sound, while a hellish glee