A cacophony is a haphazard, unharmonious combination of sounds, usually prompting the listener to wince and immediately plug their ears.
Meaning of the word
The origin of the word is ancient Greek. The root - φωνή is translated as "sound" and is involved in the creation of many lexemes associated with sound characteristics: megaphone, gramophone, tape recorder, telephone, phonogram, phoneme, music library and so on. The root κακός in Russian translation means "bad".
The meaning of the word cacophony confirms the synonymic row in which it is located: dissonance, dissonance, disharmony. Any sounds that cut the ear are perceived by the human ear as a cacophony. This is the crazy choir of March cats, and the sounds of instruments tuned before a performance or concert, and the urban dissonance of noises, and dissonant lines of other poetic verses. The word opposite to this lexeme in meaning is the term "euphony", which means euphony.
musical dissonance
Cacophony is the concept most associated with music. In modern avant-garde art, a random jumble of sounds is sometimes used on purpose, with a specific ideological and aesthetic purpose. Back in 1936, domestic critics angrily condemned the "conceptualist" Shostakovich for the intricate sound organization of his opera Lady Macbeth Mtsensk district”, calling his work a confusion instead of music. The works of the American pianist Henry Cowell, distinguished by his own peculiar style, contain musical polyphony, characterized by dissonant sound. The same can be said about the composer John Cage, famous for inventing the so-called “prepared piano”. Before the concert, the musician prepared the instrument, placing small objects between its strings - coins, pieces of paper, paper clips, pins. As a result, the sound unusual colors and timbre. Cage's technique for composing music was based on the principle of chance. The method of chance was brought to perfection by his followers - the German Stockhausen and the Frenchman Boulez.
"Metal" band
Heavy metal fans will gladly tell you that "Cacophony" is also the famous american band, musical compositions which are a bizarre mixture of Japanese, Arabic and new European melodies. During the three years of its existence (1986-1989) the band released two quality albums in the style of thrash metal and neoclassical metal.
In other areas
The noun "cacophony" is applicable to other areas of human activity. In stylistics, they say this about an ugly and unjustified combination of sounds in speech. Psychiatry keeps this term in service when referring to such nervous disorders in which the patient perceives audible sounds as chaotic noise. Metaphorically, the word "cacophony" means disagreement and lack of agreement between people. Sometimes they are determined by the inconsistency and inconsistency of the thought process, feelings and desires of the individual. Then one speaks of the cacophony of the mind. Cacophony in fine arts and architecture, one can name bizarre and piercing combinations of shapes, lines and colors, unusual for the perception of a person brought up on traditional cultural patterns.
Speak right
You can often hear such a thing as "cacophony of sounds." It is incorrect because it contains a tautology: in the noun "cacophony", as we have seen, there is already the meaning of the word "sound", thus the above expression means "dissonance of sounds". Let us use words and concepts correctly so that cacophony never arises in our thoughts and statements.
Dictionary Ushakov
Cacophony
cacophony, cacophony, female (Greek kakos - bad and - sound) ( books.). Disharmonious, ear-cutting combination of sounds, dissonance (in music, in poetry). ““Who was Phoebus from Russian caresses to” - the unexpected rhyme of “Kheraskov” does not reconcile me with this cacophony. Pushkin.
Dictionary of linguistic terms
Cacophony
(Greek kakopbonia - bad sound). Discordant, ear-piercing combination of sounds. Often, cacophony in speech is created by the annoying repetition of the same sounds, their accumulation in a sentence, not related to the stylistic task. They are being heard. sounds that gradually build up and turn into an annoying noise coming from everyone. sides for each person in the room. What river is as wide as the Oka?
Glossary of musical terms
Cacophony
(from gr. kakos - bad, and phone - sound) - a chaotic, chaotic combination of sounds that produces an anti-aesthetic impression. Some representatives of avant-garde deliberately use. cacophony (“sound clusters” by G. Cowell and D. Cage). The impression of cacophony can also arise due to the discrepancy between the musical experience of the listener and the structure of the music.
Culture of speech communication: Ethics. Pragmatics. Psychology
Cacophony
dissonance arising in speech from a combination of certain words.
* Wed Information on ethnography and history (four I give an unsuccessful sound); We went toe to toe, etc. It is necessary to take care that such phrases do not arise in you, since this is a greater or lesser marriage of speech. *
encyclopedic Dictionary
Cacophony
(from Greek kakos - bad and phone - sound), combinations musical sounds perceived as chaotic, chaotic.
Ozhegov's dictionary
KAKOF ABOUT NIA, And, and.(book). devoid of any sound chaotic combination sounds (in music, poetry).
| adj. cacophonous, oh, oh.
Kakos - bad and - I sound) (book). Disharmonious, ear-cutting combination of sounds, dissonance (in music, in poetry). ““Who was Phoebus from Russian caresses to” - the unexpected rhyme of “Kheraskov” does not reconcile me with this cacophony. Pushkin .
Dictionary Ushakov. D.N. Ushakov. 1935-1940.
Synonyms:
See what "CACOPHONIA" is in other dictionaries:
- (Greek, see the previous word). Inharmonious combination of sounds: bad pronunciation, cacophony. Dictionary foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. CACOPHONIA Greek. kakophonia, from kakos, bad, and phone, sound. Evil… … Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
Cm … Synonym dictionary
cacophony- CACOPHONIA, CACAPHONIA and, f. cacaphonie f. Non-harmonic, ear-piercing combination of sounds; cacophony. BASS 1. kakophonia bad sound. Bad sound. Sl. 18. The mentioned ending of adjectives on and in the example: true ... ... Historical dictionary gallicisms of the Russian language
An unpleasant combination of words in poetry (or sounds in music). Literary Encyclopedia: Dictionary literary terms: In 2 x volumes / Edited by N. Brodsky, A. Lavretsky, E. Lunin, V. Lvov Rogachevsky, M. Rozanov, V. Cheshikhin ... ... Literary Encyclopedia
- (from the Greek. kakos bad and phone sound) combinations of musical sounds, perceived as chaotic, chaotic ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary
CACOPHONIA, and, wives. (book). Deprived of any harmony, a chaotic combination of sounds (in music, poetry). | adj. cacophonous, oh, oh. Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov
Cacophony- CACOPHONIA - an unpleasant combination of words in poetry (or sounds in music) ... Dictionary of literary terms
CACOPHONY- (from the Greek kakos bad + phone sound) combinations of musical sounds perceived as chaotic, chaotic and unpleasant. Big psychological dictionary. Moscow: Prime EUROZNAK. Ed. B.G. Meshcheryakova, acad. V.P. Zinchenko. 2003 ... Great Psychological Encyclopedia
- (inosk.) discord, disagreement, stupidity; allusion to cacophony, bad consonance (of words), unpleasant clash of sounds, dissonance Cf. If all those sitting here were invited to express their opinions ... what a cacophony it would be, what a nonsense, ... ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary
cacophony- and, only units, f. In music, poetry: inharmonious, devoid of euphony, chaotic combination of sounds. To sound exactly symphonic work, and not a cacophony of sounds, the orchestra must be controlled by the conductor (Kazakovtsev). ... ... Popular dictionary of the Russian language
Books
- Truth is symphonic, Balthasar HW The fact that Christian truth is symphonic should be said publicly, conveyed to the heart of everyone - today, perhaps more necessary than ever. But a symphony is by no means...
Every musical style has its own harmonic, rhythmic, dynamic, stroke and other features. They also depend heavily on historical era and countries of style formation. For example, jazz is characterized by a syncopated rhythm, strokes of marcato, staccato. Blues music is characterized by a slow tempo, as well as syncopations, strokes of marcato and legato. Latina is notable for its fast tempo, virtuoso guitar parts, etc.
Cacophony. Check word
Translated from other Greek. the word "cacophony" means "bad" or "evil" and "sound". That is, a bad, ugly, unpleasant to hearing arbitrary combination of sounds.
Check word does not have, the correct spelling must be remembered.
Root of the word- "cacophon". It has cognate word"cacophonous".
Cacophony. What is non-harmonic music
Music in which all voices and sounds sound without a specific system - rhythmic, tonal, harmonic, dynamic and melodic organization is called cacophony. To be more precise, it's not even music, but just a chaotic set of sounds.
A similar sound pun can be heard during the preparation of the orchestra for a rehearsal or performance, when the leader is not yet at the conductor's stand, and each musician prepares the instrument by playing something of his own.
Elements of cacophony in modern music
In some areas of music of the 20th and 21st centuries, there are similar cacophonies that seem structureless, musical passages. For example, when a pianist plays the piano not with his fingers, but with his fists, involuntarily hitting different keys, or when the conductor of an orchestra playing music of some neoclassical direction instructs all the orchestra members to play any sounds at the same time, without any preparation, indication of key, etc. d. The lovers of such music themselves invest in its sound a special philosophical meaning, although for most people it seems simply nonsense - a cacophony.
Some contemporary composers who write completely melodic and harmonious music, sometimes use elements of cacophony as a stylistic device that allows them to express the chaos of the modern world.
The music of some African tribes is also sometimes referred to as a cacophony.
What is verbal chaos? A similar phenomenon exists in the art of poetry, when ugly and wrong, illogically chosen words are encountered.
Both in music and in poetry, the word "cacophony" means an imperfect, chaotic, chaotic and unpleasant combination of sounds and words.
