chordal

How To Use chordal In A Sentence

• Yet the music is anything but predictable, and Mr. McHenry utilizes different approaches with the same group, from conventional chordal improvisation to noisier free-form pieces. The Jazz Scene: Sultry Styles and 50 Years of the Rumble
• And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
• The composer adapts the antiphonal structure by alternating sections of linear two-voice writing with those of chordal textures, the latter serving as multiple refrains.
• A platform of kinetic cut-and-paste electronica is enriched by waves of horns and choral voices, relentless bass patterns, darting guitars, crisp percussion, jolting changes in meter and Thom Yorke's wheedling vocals sung often without chordal support. Lucinda Williams Snarls, Mary J. Blige Thrills
• Sitting in stark contrast, the Scherzo follows with its bold chordal character, leading to the finale which accelerates to a presto before drawing to a close.
• chordal assonance in modern music
• Those produced by the hypochordal lobe of the caudal fin of selachians and early bony fishes have been studied in detail.
• The endless, apparently unvaried repetition of simple chordal progressions is what gives this symphony its hypnotic quality. Times, Sunday Times
• But where that unconventional ensemble features two chordal instruments—piano and guitar—and no bass, the quintet appearing this week features two basses, Scott Colley playing the acoustic upright and Fima Ephron on the electric, along with Messrs. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
• All pieces are written in a melody and accompaniment style, with the right hand playing the melody and the left hand playing chordal figures or arpeggiations.