Sentence examples for one single chord from inspiring English sources
At the Gramophone awards, his one-time student and close friend, the concert pianist Imogen Cooper, described the experience of studying with Brendel: "We spent a full 20 minutes working on one single chord in a late Schubert sonata, he with demonic intensity, I with a kind of rigid terror, until I got it exactly right.
One single chord of his lamentation can resound for all the world to hear.
From a couple of minutes in – less if you're clever – it's utterly clear where the piece is going: one single chord methodically uncurling its way from an initial 11-beat rhythmic burst into an expansive blanket of harmony.
"There was no way to move any faster / Because we stay stuck in one place, with nothing to do," Shamir sings, on "Sometimes a Man," while a single chord repeats.
Here it happened during a keyboard solo on "Togo," over a gyrating single chord.
Some of her songs were written out as traditional sheet music, some merely as chords — she has no one single way of working, though she typically annotates and sketches a song before recording.
The chord flooded the "crimson twilight" like the "close of an Angel's hand," "quieted pain and sorrow" and "link'd all perplexed meanings/ Into one perfect peace," quite a lot for a single chord to accomplish.
She is caught in an unstoppable rhythmic vortex from which there is only one way out: through the terrible dissonance that ends the piece, and the single chord that kills her.
Mr. Maroon started the concert with a drone, hammering a single chord until Mr. Leithauser started singing, which persuaded Mr. Maroon to find another one.
"Every instrument a drum," he says, and persuades the horns to play, in unison, a single chord.
