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Recent Examples of chordal
Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
Maybe that explains why their playing in the Eighth Symphony sang out with such fullness and breadth, and why chordal passages had such strong hints of a church choir.
—New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
It can be strummed, plucked, played for chordal accompaniment or virtuosic runs.
—John Adamian, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
Leven effortlessly pivoted back and forth between cozying up to Stepner’s line and joining the lower strings’ strong chordal figures, adding a soloistic glimmer on occasion.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
Image Most avant-garde horn players then were letting go of the piano and all other chordal instruments, not to mention the structures of song form.
—New York Times, 25 May 2018
Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
Maybe that explains why their playing in the Eighth Symphony sang out with such fullness and breadth, and why chordal passages had such strong hints of a church choir.
—New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
It can be strummed, plucked, played for chordal accompaniment or virtuosic runs.
—John Adamian, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
Leven effortlessly pivoted back and forth between cozying up to Stepner’s line and joining the lower strings’ strong chordal figures, adding a soloistic glimmer on occasion.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
Image Most avant-garde horn players then were letting go of the piano and all other chordal instruments, not to mention the structures of song form.
—New York Times, 25 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chordal
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Engineers determined the most likely cause of the propellant leak was a harmonic response several times stronger than predicted, suggesting the vibrations during the ship's climb into space were in resonance with the vehicle's natural frequency.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
7 Mar. 2025
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Telemetry indicated the fire broke out after propellant lines leading to one of the Raptors ruptured due to unexpected harmonic vibrations.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2025
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Season 7’s sleek, six-episode lineup is drawing some of its best reviews to date, with critics praising the emotional complexity, tonal range, and sharp storytelling.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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There was a lot of tonal discussion and back and forth.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Queen may have started as a four-piece rock band but their ambitions and grandiose stage shows led to lavish studio productions that took them in orchestral and operatic directions.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 Apr. 2025
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Dance music, orchestral arrangements, cinematic sweeps and mesmerizing beats will utilize the venue’s pristine sound system.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Then the crickets become a new rhythmic feint, arranged for trap rhythm, and then another bass line blows up the landscape.—
Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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If the rhythmic releases of norepinephrine correlate with the arrival of a larger tracer at a sensor on the brain’s surface, that would be a fascinating finding.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
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“Chordal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chordal. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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