Shire used the 12-tone composition method to create unusual, somewhat dissonant melodic elements. Verlaine's guitar establishes the song's rhythmic phrase, against which Lloyd is heard playing dissonant melodies. Sung by male trios, it is strongly harmonic and occasionally dissonant. The piece comes to a crashing close with almost dissonant septuplet arpeggios. Guitar parts include anything from driving head-banging riffs to dissonant ones. All of these were orchestrated in a series of ominous, dissonant arrangements and nightmarish marches. It devolves into a drumbeat with dissonant blasts of guitar. He began composing works containing dissonant and startling sounds. When there is harmony, infants almost always prefer consonant intervals over dissonant intervals. ABC.net described it as "dissonant" and "ominous". Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. There are both dissonant and consonant inverted cambiatas. Also, infants are able to differentiate between consonant and dissonant intervals. Yet the streak led to one strangely dissonant event. The predominate marimbas in "Wind Chimes" were replaced by organ and dissonant noise.