This beginning of the novel strikes two clear chords.
She sets up intricate picked patterns or sketches genuine counterpoint; she syncopates jazz harmonies and or lets clear chords ring out.
That gluttony was offset by the deep joyfulness of a shimmering, new, bastard style: ragtime, whose "clear chords hung in the air like flowers," and which took over the city, rich and poor, black and white.
In a distinctive form of just intonation, Mr. Harrison strips away centuries of well-tempered convention to reveal naked notes, which he stacks up in clear chords or swirling clouds.
In the poem "Hélas!," published in 1881, he wistfully imagines a life of "austere control," in which he "might have trod / The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance / Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God".
Federer, normally so commanding when in front, buckled again, his running forehand failing to clear the chord.
Movement III, marked Postlude, The Madonna Weeps, has long sections that start with a smashed major chord, followed by dissolution into an ambiguous atonal world, marked by clear and articulated chords changing ever so slowly.
The band's third album, "Microcastle" (Kranky), replaces much of Deerhunter's past cacophony with major chords, clear refrains and a hazy aura that enfolds both psychedelia and Sonic Youth.
The richly chromatic music for the verses, in which Monica relates her story, is redolent of Chopin and Bach, but the devastating refrain—" 'Cause they don't need a hood or a cross or a tree"—is etched in clear, blues-tinged chords.
It was clear from the opening chords that Mr. Nasseri's focus was on the work's grandeur and high drama, but even so his fluid tempos kept you guessing how the balance of athleticism and poetry would tilt at any moment, or how close to the edge of losing control he would take his frenzied account of the finale.
For Ms. Nonken, it is also fantastical, and it's just as intense that way, with a sharp glint in its staccato chords, a clear sense of the churning harmony in the most strictly determined sections and a nice scaling of tempos, so that one section bounces out of another.
