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
"Ragtime Jimmy" played in the classic razzmatazz style� heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble�of which he is still in perfect possession.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The instant our intuition reveals the cause of phenomena our reason drops in and tells us it is the chording vibration of the matter of the two planes—the physical and etheric—that produces all physical phenomena.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.
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