broken chord
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How to use broken chord in a sentence
The music ended with a broken chord, and he looked up—to find his friend gazing at him with ineffable happiness.
The White Shield | Myrtle ReedAvoid broken-chord effects, that is, do not use more than three tones belonging to the same chord in succession.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons | Friedrich J. LehmannThis would be something startling on drum and cymbals, with, on 'cello, a broken chord.
At the outset we see the leading motive, which consists of an ascending broken chord twice repeated.
Music: An Art and a Language | Walter Raymond SpaldingLike the moan of a broken chord wails the thought of departure.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
British Dictionary definitions for broken chord
music a chord played as an arpeggio
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