broken chord

American  

noun

Music.

1. arpeggio.

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broken chord British  

noun

1. music a chord played as an arpeggio

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Example Sentences

Then it grows small again, a lonely keyboard wandering a broken chord as Bryant’s voiceover admits that his body can only play for so long.

From Los Angeles Times

This initial play of image and sound introduces the strengths and half-realized potential of “Broken Chord,” a South African production that had its United States premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday.

From New York Times

“Broken Chord” is about the African Choir, a long-forgotten group of missionary-educated South African singers who toured England and North America in the 1890s, encountering racism and other pernicious colonial attitudes.

From New York Times

Broken Chord is a 60-minute production, in which Maqoma is the central dancer alongside four soloists and a chorus.

From BBC

"Broken Chord kind of morphed from being just the story of the choir. It became about the resonance to the now, to what we are navigating today - around race, around migration, around intolerance, around the things that we are always struggling about,"Maqoma says.

From BBC