The chant of the choir fell into the minor, over a pattern of unresolved chords from the organ: "Hallelujah!"
Aili didn't feel she'd sold it enough; Cham's counterpoint was still present, his skeptical melody creating an unresolved chord.
Dissonance and unresolved chords are interesting and effective, but is that all there is?
The music faded, stopped on an unresolved chord; people shifted their feet and stared at one another.
Cadences are often "altered" to include unresolved suspended chords which include a fourth above the bass:
The lute pinged into silence on an unresolved chord, leaving Pierol's formal sorrow wandering in the night.
With her voice accompanied only by piano and string quartet, Annette Peacock presents love and music as a perpetual tightrope walk from one unresolved chord to the next.
The microphones sound close up, thrusting unresolved chords and clashing tones right in our faces.
The "This living hand" fragment had been one of those poetic rhythms which echoes like an unresolved chord in the mind, driving one to see it in ink, on paper.
The piano's entrance resembles an Eingang, an improvisatory passage from Mozart's day that would have occurred after the orchestra's last unresolved dominant chord, but before the piano played the main theme.