Clamour vs Dissonance - What's the difference?
clamour | dissonance | Related terms |
* Chaucer (Wife of Bath's Tale)
*:Ffor which oppression was swich clamour
* Shakespeare (Love's Labours Lost)
*:Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
* Addison
*:Here the loud Arno's boist'rous clamours cease.
(obsolete) To salute loudly.
* Milton
(obsolete) To stun with noise.
* Bacon
(obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
a harsh, discordant combination of sounds
(music) conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
a state of disagreement or conflict
Clamour is a related term of dissonance.
As nouns the difference between clamour and dissonance
is that clamour is while dissonance is a harsh, discordant combination of sounds.As a verb clamour
is .clamour
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (US spelling)Noun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
Verb
(en verb)- The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.
- Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
- (Bishop Warburton)