He worked over the dissonance of a whole tone scale, and flatted the fifth degree of a chord, ending a phrase on its bitterness.
The T-shape integral joints, which are composed of welded box-section members, were simply supported at chord ends so that the loading cases of horizontal force and vertical force at brace end can be considered.
Scribe lines for the cuts at these overlapping places, cutting the bottom chord ends first if required.
To deal with this subtlety we split each residue into as many residues as the number of bonds it forms, and sort endpoints of chords in such a way, that no intersections are introduced in the corresponding chord diagram by chords ending in those residues.
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.
Mr. Biss, or so it seemed, wanted to leave his audience with the calming major chords that end the Schumann.
A set of time history analyses was conducted to investigate performance parameters such as the interstory drift ratio and the plastic rotation at chord member ends.
The intensity of his concentration -- the only moments of relief are the smashing chords to end a soloistic passage and some lightning-fast runs from high to low -- were staggering and almost too much to bear.
A conjurer of conspiracies who spotted sedition everywhere he looked, Mr. Beck struck a big chord and ended up on the cover of Time magazine and The New York Times Magazine, and held rallies all over the country that were mobbed with acolytes.
For "Mon Trés Cher Pére" (named after Mozart's wrongly accented greeting in letters to his father) he wielded oversize paddles, with five or six mallets extending from each, to play on a marimba the dissonant chords that end Mozart's "Musical Joke".
