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rough music
noun
- (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
Example Sentences
Reviewing “Patriot,” another Alex Hawke novel, in The Times Book Review in 2015, the novelist Benjamin Percy wrote that one of its most compelling scenes delivered “a rough music to the prose and a strong sense of character to the novel,” which he described in a way that fulfilled Mr. Bell’s boyhood ambition.
“When times get rough, music is where I go,” she said.
Take, for example, the English folk custom of the 18th and 19th centuries known as rough music, ran-tan or ran-tanning.
Later, on “Bury a Friend,” Eilish samples the rough music of a dental drill used during her actual orthodontist appointment; Eilish has described the song as being written from the perspective of a monster hiding underneath the bed.
“This is not the first stop on our sojourn,” Eril-Fane said, his voice like rough music.
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