chording
Britishnoun
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the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
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the intonation of a group of instruments or voices
Example Sentences
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Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thankfully my injured thumb was on my chording hand, where it would be a relatively minor inconvenience.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Across this gulf the two planes respond to each other, note for note, the note in trillions chording when the note in thousands is struck.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
But do you not see that all vital phenomena come from the chording vibration of the pranic, etheric, and prakritic atom of the three planes of matter which are in each atom?
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
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