Sentence examples for cluster chords from inspiring English sources

Huge cluster chords accumulate.

Henry Cowell's "Synchrony" well displays the composer's alert ear for layered sonorities and crunchy cluster chords.

He began aptly with a song, "In Silence," that evoked Messiaen's cluster chords.

The piano enters in its highest register, alternating Messiaenesque cluster chords with fleet, skittishly delicate runs.

"Dark Matter," a song based on rumbling cluster chords, evokes the secret places of the universe.

The music quivers with spiraling riffs, piercing contrapuntal lines and pungent cluster chords that ecstatically leap about the keyboard.

Mr. Mehldau's musical language is rich with misty cluster chords, swirling impressionistic colors and undulant rhythmic riffs.

Plain major-key music represents Jo's dream world; chromaticism, whole-tone harmonies, and cluster chords represent reality and change.

Though the piece is steeped in blues, the music is run through with Bartokian wails, cluster chords and obsessive riffs.

Without the alluring orchestral clothing, Stravinsky's harmonies, cluster chords, pummeling riffs and meter-smashing rhythms sound even more radical.

Dressed in the traditional white clothing of Cuban religious ceremonies, he roused the crowd better than almost anyone working the jazz circuit does: he pumped his fist, divided the audience into separate halves of clapping rhythm, even stood on the bench at one climax point and played cluster-chords with his foot.