Cacophony

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–noun

1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles (母雞下蛋人咯咯笑), and wails. 

2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by [city traffic] at midday. 

3. Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.  





　

Revolutionary in how it presents a group of men (and two incongruous girls, or dwarves) not as bold, static nobles but in a cacophony of poses and movement, the painting lends itself to historical leaps of imagination, and Greenaway plunges right in.





see incongruous (discrepant, different)



strident strident [insects] [hinges], a strident tone in his [writings] 

screech the screech of [owls] [brakes], disagreeable, lack of dignity

squeal 



segue rendition  

coda penultimate

schmaltz serenade aria crescendo

pastiche threnody

cacophony