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Experts say that the merger strikes a dissonant chord from a branding perspective too.

We sent a dissonant chorus of our own to the Whitney Museum of American Art: three critics, each writing separately, on the highs and lows of the exhibition everyone will have an opinion about.

More recently, scholars have tried to find psychological explanations, but these 'integer ratios' are still credited with making a chord sound beautiful, and deviation from them is thought to make music 'dissonant', unpleasant sounding.

The dissonant stacked intervals emanating from the orchestra pit highlights Louise Little — Malcolm’s mother — while she frets, waiting for her husband to come home.

For example, dissonant, atonal harmonies convey a sense of unrest.