"chord" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dumarest heard the scuff of boots in the passage, a sudden sonorous chord, a muffled curse in Eglantine's voice.
- The symphony's nickname is derived from the sudden loud chord played by the entire orchestra in the second movement.
- Picking with his thumb, Mr. Ulmer would fling a short phrase across the beat, play fast chromatic zigzags, pause, then rake a sharp, sudden chord on an off-beat.
- Granted, it was thrilling to hear Beethoven's sudden, monumental chords spring forth from a background of utter silence.
- With a sudden, jangling chord, all the rocks around them began emitting music again.
- They call for sudden, explosive, precise chords and for thickly voiced ensembles, and they regularly push the trumpets up into their high registers.
- Some 'trade-marks', such as a sudden explosive final chord following a quiet passage, were established at an early stage.
- The song finished with a sudden chord, and the lights cut abruptly.
- New Crobuzon night had always been a chaos of jarring beats and sudden violent chords.
- The sudden and unwelcome major chord that ends this piece indicates less a confident conclusion than a composer who did not know what else to do and simply stopped.
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