To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which can winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole. Surely there was a time I might have trod The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God: Is that time dead? with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - And must I lose a soul's inheritance?英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
"I thought it was Bach, and it is clearly Strauss's Don Quixote."
Michael, flushed and determined, with grave, set mouth, ploughed his way through amazing dissonances, and at the end joined Falbe's laughter. "Oh dear," he said. "Very funny. But don't laugh so at me, Hermann."
Falbe dried his eyes. "And what was it?" he said. "I declare it was the fourth fugue. An entirely different conception of it! A thoroughly original view!英文原著 · 《Michael》
At length the clarions and trumpets from the top of the tower announced the prelude of departure; though the instruments were in unison with each other, yet a singular dissonance was blended with their sounds; this proceeded from Carathis, who was singing her direful orisons to the Giaour, whilst the negresses and mutes supplied thorough-base without articulating a word. The good Mussulmans fancied that they heard the sullen hum of those nocturnal insects which presage evil, and importuned Vathek to beware how he ventured his sacred person.英文原著 · 《The History of Caliph Vathek》
No, uh, pop songs also tend to be nonharmonic with pronounced timbrel dissonance.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》