cacophony - it is unsystematic, lacking harmony combination of sounds, usually encouraging listeners wince and instantly plug your ears.
meaning of
origin of the word - an ancient Greek.Root - φωνή translated as "sound" and participates in the creation of many tokens associated with the sound characteristics: megaphone, gramophone, tape recorder, phone, phonogram, a phoneme, a music library, and so on.Root κακός in Russian means "bad."
meaning of the word cacophony confirms synonymous series in which it is located: the dissonance, discord, disharmony.Any sounds, cutting the ear, perceived by the human ear as a cacophony.This ochumely chorus of cats in March, and custom sounds before the presentation or concert instruments, and urban cacophony of noise and discordant string of other poetic verses.In short, the opposite of this is a token of the value of the term "euphony" which means harmony.
musical dissonance
cacophony - a concept that is most associated with music.In today's avant-garde art jumble of sounds is sometimes used specifically with a certain ideological and aesthetic purposes.Even in 1936, "conceptual" Shostakovich's domestic critics angrily denounced the organization of the intricate sound of his opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", calling it a work of Muddle Instead of Music.Works by American pianist Henry Cowell, which contrasted with his own peculiar style, contain music Polyphony characterized dissonant sound.The same can be said about the composer John Cage, became famous for the invention of so-called "prepared piano".Before the concert, the musician was preparing the instrument by placing it between the strings of small objects - coins, paper, paper clips, safety pins.As a result, the sound acquired unusual colors and tone.Technique composing music from Cage was based on the principle of randomness.Perfected a method of chance brought his followers - a German and a Frenchman Stockhausen Boulez.
«Metal" group
Fans of the style of heavy metal readily tell you that the "cacophony" - it is also a famous American artist, whose songs are an odd mixture of Japanese, Arab, and the new European melodies.During the three years of its existence (1986-1989), the band released two albums in high-quality style of thrash metal and neoclassical metal.
In other areas
noun "cacophony" also applies to other areas of human activity.In the style of what they say about the ugly and unjustified combination of sounds in speech.Psychiatry keeps this term in service when we have in mind such a nerve disorder in which the patient perceives audible sounds like a chaotic noise.Metaphorically, the word "cacophony" refers to differences of opinion and lack of harmony between people.Sometimes they identify inconsistencies and contradictions in the thinking process, feelings and desires of the individual.Then talk about the cacophony of mind.Cacophony in art and architecture can be called bizarre and poignant combination of shapes, lines and colors, unusual perception of a man brought up in traditional culture samples.
speak correctly
uncommon to hear such a thing as "a cacophony of sounds."It is incorrect because it contains a tautology: in the noun "cacophony", as we have seen, already have the word "sound", so the above expression means "a cacophony of sounds."Let's use the right words and concepts that in our thoughts and statements never arose a cacophony.
