Sentence examples for without chords from inspiring English sources

Saxophone trios in general, even with the horn player gnashing and wailing, can make a lonely sound: all that open land without chords to cultivate it.

Taylor's breakthroughs in changing the notion of swing, improvising without chords, and spontaneous composition – combining the timbres and intonations of jazz with the vocabulary of contemporary conservatoire music – opened up new avenues for both improvisers and composers.

Mr. Bley was the right person to ask: he and the trumpeter Herbie Spanier had, at Mr. Bley's instigation, been playing long, completely improvised duets without chord changes or set tempos in Los Angeles in 1957, a year before Mr. Bley's first brush with Mr. Coleman.

The tubular X-joint specimens were tested without chord preload as well as with three different levels of preload applied to the chord members.

His singing can raise the hair on the back of your neck without changing chords.

On this record, I wanted to also try--which is something that I've tried in the past, but more of it happened on this record--having the song develop and evolve without changing chords.

(D ) Isolated figures : stimulus comprises only of the 'figure present' portion without any chords preceding or following the figure.

It is found that the critical temperature for a tubular K-joint without initial chord stress is merely related to the degree of utilization, and the effect of geometric parameters on such critical temperature can be ignored.

Harmonic topics, of which there were eight, captured classes of chord change, or their absence (eg, "dominant 7th-chord changes" and "major chords without changes").

Striking chords without sounding jarring notes would be useless if potential voters are deterred by the thought that they could let the Tories in, though, and this is where the Greens have gained crucial strength since the last general election.

Similar in a sense to Stravinsky's pandiatonicism, or use of diatonic chords without the limitations of classical harmonic function, is the tendency toward polytonality in the works of the post-World War I group of French composers known as "Les Six".