In "Nature Boy," there were a few chordal passages, and an ostinato, and silence; the piece dissolved into parts and individual figures.

Blues ideas percolated through chordal passages, and when the melody did appear, he played it in double time, as a riff over his chords.

Following a quick chordal passage from the piano, the development begins, utilizing much of the material from the first subject.

Bach asks a violinist to produce chordal passages, counterpoint and the illusion of interplay between several distinct voices.

One moment dark, sliding string figures evoke a dance of death; the next is a serene paean to England in slow, gracefully consonant chordal passages.

Mr. Kissin tore commandingly through the driving chordal passages of the first movement.

A homogeneous chordal passage such as the following:

He threw in two-handed chordal passages.

That was especially evident in the big, broad chordal passage in the Finale.

The brass timbres have a slightly grainy edge that, particularly in chordal passages, creates a vivid, almost tactile sound.