Once in position they sang repeating pairs of chords that matched the beauty of the Hubble Deep Field, which spontaneously appeared on audience members' smart phones.
Instead there are pairs of chords that recur over and over; four-note repeating melodies in pizzicato; breathy tone clusters; D sharp leading to C sharp again and again; and about every 15 minutes, an arch-shaped theme that keeps coming back like the eternal unanswered question.
The First Symphony, from 1892, starts with a pair of curt chords, bright C major and darker-hued G minor, which land on the ears like a one-two punch.
It's majestic and slow, with a pair of resplendent synth chords rippling outward.
During "Message of Love," a pair of sharp guitar chords alternate with Ms. Hynde's graceful vocals; the song sounded slinky and spiky at the same time.
"All My Friends" clings to a part that was originally buried: a pair of parallel piano chords pounded in close rhythmic succession, with the kind of overlapping you'd find in a Steve Reich composition.
"If you're gonna hurt me," sings Låpsley on her biggest tune, Hurt Me, "why don't you hurt me a little bit more?" With rumours persisting that Adele might leave XL, you wouldn't want to saddle Låpsley with some tendentious Adele replacement tag – there is a marked difference in their pipe capacities, for one – but for every glitchy feint, Long Way Home packs a pair of populist piano chords too.
In particular it has been assumed that Newton's so-called "rotating bucket experiment", together with the later example of a pair of globes connected by a chord and revolving about their center of gravity, is supposed to argue, or provide evidence for, the existence of true, or absolute, motion.
Ms. George does strike an emotional chord with a pair of songs called "Birthday" and "Baby".
Therefore for the real practice, we recommend the use of a pair of compasses to measure the determined chord distance.
Not even a series of chords.
