Which chord in the key has been left out of the progression? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Subtly, my fingers press down imaginary chords on an imaginary bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All chords will tend towards pure fifths and thirds, as well as seconds, fourths, sixths, and sevenths that reflect the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I strummed a minor chord that sounded even less appealing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though it was intended merely as a time-saving tool, its use began to change the way composers and keyboard players manipulated chords, changing the sound of harmony along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach’s and Handel’s rich palette of chords was stripped back to just a handful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So these chords have both names and numbers that tell how they fit into the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Check to see whether the major or minor chords are emphasized overall. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But this fresh anger struck a deeper chord than most of his sudden bursts of frustration. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Passacaglia structure involves a short sequence of four or eight chords repeated many times, which act as the springboard for a series of unfolding melodic explorations or improvisations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whenever her hands hit bass and treble chords at the same time, the bodice stretched tight across her bust, and on fast pieces, the jiggle was something to see! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A single bagpipes or accordion player playing a melody with drones or chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

How the players chose to play those chords could alter from performance to performance; it is a rather non-prescriptive, jazz-like system in that respect. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In an extended chord, all or some of the notes in the "stack of thirds" below the named note may also be added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Neck opens his mouth to speak, David presses the Play and Record buttons at the same time, like a pianist hitting an opening chord. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harmony made from chords came alive in his four-part vocal music, even if some of his note combinations sound accidental rather than intentional. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.31: There is some variation in the chord symbols for altered chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He strummed chords across the top of my chest, which tickled and made me laugh. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shape when playing chords. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the fifteenth century drew on, the various Franco-Flemish courts of the Dukes of Burgundy became the artistic powerhouses of northern Europe, and it was here that Dunstaple’s new cocktail of chords really took off. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His fingers couldn’t form chords on his guitar strings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I heard the music and the beats, the chords and the melody. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For example, if the F sharps are written as G flats, or if the A's are sharp instead of natural, you have a different chord, not an inversion of the same chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then transpose the chords down one half step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The more weight composers gave to the junior notes and lesser chords, the more they allowed the harmony to lose its sense of familiarity, reassurance and comfort. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For Mozart or Haydn, the hierarchy of chords was so strict that the listener is never far from the ‘home’ key centre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And for some reason this strikes a chord, piquing a memory. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This sound okay, Sparrow?” she asks as she strums a chord. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the chord name will be a slash followed by a note name, for example C/E. The note following the slash should be the bass note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He struck the minor chord again; held it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine how frustrating it would be to end that tune without singing the last note or playing the final chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What Monteverdi did in his madrigals was to take the idea of triads and chords, and start to mess with their chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A chord is a combination of musical notes; it has an h, for “harmony,” which is what chords can produce. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rewrite each chord in root position, and name the original position of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Which other chords would be affected by this change? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown gave me Beethoven’s Ecossaise in G, which, strangely, had chords not unlike the Joplin rags. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, the bearded piano dude finished his melody with wobbly, dying chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He plucked a few chords on his mandolin and started a rollicking cowboy song. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So, you often don't need to know exactly what notes or chords are being played. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In many other situations, the performer is left to decide how to play the chord most effectively. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Rhythm Section — The rhythm section of a band is the group of instruments that usually provide the background rhythm and chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the first part of his epic Ring cycle, The Rhinegold, for example, angry diminished chords are often used to signify the dangerous power of the Ring itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Shadrach struck a few chords on the guitar and seemed to study their harmony closely before he replied. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chord symbols also may be used even when an accompaniment is written out, so that performers can read either the chord symbol or the notated music, as they prefer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In half an hour, he had a whole song pulled together: words, melody, and chords. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s those first couple chords that every person in this auditorium knows so well. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Such a chord can be dominant, major, or minor; the performer must take care to play the correct third and seventh. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Find a key a bit lower that still has nice, easy-to-play chords for guitar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her life seems to be playing on all chords. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All other parts provide accompaniment or fill in the chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Look closely at the chords you have written and see if you can notice something surprising about them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The syllables rolled through his head like a ripple of guitar chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The predominance of these three chords was no passing fad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The deep, rumbling chords of the song filled Harken Square. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pianist isn't prepared to play it in any other key, but you really don't like those thin-sounding chords in A flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I fingered a few more light chords, testing, listened, and nodded to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city. sang the hundreds of voices, so powerfully the air seemed to shiver. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he placed his front paws on the keyboard and pressed down, creating a discordant chord. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As the other two major chords in the key, IV and V are also likely to be very common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A fragment of a chord, a familiar tune came to the front in the form of a tiny sequence of notes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I would know those three opening chords anywhere. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard station, projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two parts for different performers written on the same staff — If the parts have the same rhythm, they may be written as block chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Or they may simply feel "unstable"; if you hear a chord with a dissonance in it, you may feel that the music is pulling you towards the chord that resolves the dissonance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I struck a few quiet chords, then touched the pegs, tuning it ever so slightly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On a treble clef staff, write the chords named. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If the fifth of the chord is the lowest note, the chord is in second inversion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

These chords are also available in the key of C major, of course, but they typically are not given such a prominent place. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I want you to listen while I interview him, and let me know if anything he says strikes a chord.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Look particularly for tonic chords and dominant sevenths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Any number of alterations can be listed, making some chord symbols quite long. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Do you tend to identify a note by its interval from the previous note or by its place in the chord or in the key? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I moved my hands again and the lute made two chords whispering against each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I hit several chords and run a few scales. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Diminishing or augmenting chords does strange things to the way they behave. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Our next important chord is chord IV which I have marked with a dotted line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sequence works by exploiting a weakness in the first of two chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If there is one melodic line accompanied only by rhythm, or drones, or only by chords, there is no counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Depending on your interests, you may also want to spend time creating pleasing chord progressions by choosing chords from the correct key that will complement a melody that you know. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Most pieces will end on the tonic chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An augmented chord is built from two major thirds, which adds up to an augmented fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The "bright"-sounding major chords and the strong feeling of tonality are what give major keys their happy, pleasant moods. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Wagner’s debt to Liszt is evident even in Wagner’s most famous chord - so famous, in fact, that it has its own name. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker’s presence which had touched some chord in his memory. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Music in which the chords change rarely has a slow harmonic rhythm; music in which the chords change often has a fast harmonic rhythm. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, composers increasingly found that chords had a hierarchy, too: certain chords exert an influence over other chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The blind man stroked the strings and played two more chords. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But during the seventeenth century, musicians intrigued by the forbidden fruit opened up by chord sequences increasingly sought to be able to move from one mode to another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If the final chord is not the tonic of either the major or the minor key for that key signature, there are two possibilities. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the first phrase of the song, the words Amazing grace’ share one chord, our ‘home’ chord. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He could sing a song and strike a chord now and then and really it sounded as though he were singing to music. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a chord symbol says to "add13," on the other hand, this usually means that only the thirteenth is added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually the dance elements of the Chaconne were abandoned altogether and the chord sequence alone remained in music of all styles and rhythms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If that doesn't seem to work for your piece, try a transposition that makes the most common chord an easy chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dark chords from the organ slip into the night, turning our shoes into concrete blocks and pulling down our faces until we look like trees drooping with black leaves. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Across the armrest of Cool Papa’s watcher’s chair lay the old guitar that had once cried and twanged hot electric chords and sometimes a ghost note out into the night. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

This was real music—chords, harmonies, tunes, and all the rest of it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cables thrumming beneath the pavement struck a minor chord of suspense, and held it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Again, it is important to name a chord or interval as it has been spelled, in order to understand how it fits into the rest of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Giuseppe,” the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Chord manuals, fingering charts, chord diagrams, and notes written out on a staff are all very useful, especially if the composer wants a very particular sound on a chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When we listen to the music of Bach, or Gershwin, or Sting, or Alicia Keys, we are being taken on a journey of chords, a ‘progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If the third of the chord is the lowest note, the chord is in first inversion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Really listen to the chord progressions to the songs you do know. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat, saying this is safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a simple chord and strummed it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But between the chanting, the harp chords, and the train rumble, the magician was losing his audience. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.27: Take care to use the correct third and seventh — dominant, major, or minor — with extended chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He strummed the same chords over and over, then moved up the frets and strummed something different. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They are obeying strict laws, rather like the laws of gravity or of planets in orbit, whereby some chords exert more power than others. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Technically, Mozart’s approach was similar to Haydn’s - the same orchestra, the same chords, the same architecture - but he had the melodic gift of a god. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This means the substituted chord is the relative minor of the tonic chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Billy had powerful psychosomatic responses to the changing chords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emphasized the sudden B-flat chord in just the right place. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As in longer works, modulation, with its new set of chords, is a good way to keep a piece interesting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.25: To find out what to call a note added to a chord, count the notes of the scale named by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Write the minor chord for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her voice is ragged, the ripped chords of an Eat’n Park hostess back home. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

These days, guitarists who want to play a well-known pop or folk song can do so simply by reading a chart with the names of the chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I imagined the silence of the hall when I struck the last chord; my bow wavering in silence; and me standing alone before the faces of a mob unimpressed by my exertions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Write and name the chords in G major and in B flat major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It is also likely that many of the chords in the progression will be chords that are common in the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Roman numerals are used to number the chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Drone: A note or chord continuously sounding without change. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The chords are numbered using Roman numerals from I to vii. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

To decide what position a chord is in, move the notes to make a stack of thirds and identify the root. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The chord built on the seventh degree of the scale is a diminished chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I struck a chord and listened to the grating sound. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I keep hearing in my head Mrs. Spitz’s opening chords like the march of doom. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I moved a finger and the chord went minor in a way that always sounded to me as if the lute were saying sad. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the nineteenth century progressed, though, the lure of the three governing triads, I, IV and V began to pall and the strength of the previously well-defined chords began to blur. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Now there is not a great deal of unoccupied territory left, but there is still room for chord V which I have marked with a grey line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A singer accompanied by a guitar picking or strumming chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So in fourteenth-century polyphony, the perfect fifth, the perfect fourth and the octave comprised the vast majority of note combinations, or chords, on offer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After the first two or three hours she figured out some sets of chords in the bass that would fit in with the main tune her right hand was playing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They sat through the service and listened to the Bath minister’s breathy sermon from Galatians, and when the last chords of Lillian Woodward’s postlude finished, they stood up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I, the keyboard player, read the first note, G, I know I am meant to play the straightforward chord of G: the notes G-B-D. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She plays it again and again, each time adding a new variation that makes the tune more complex, until the original simple melody is barely audible beneath the trills and chords on top of it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s playing simple chords in a studded beat that I think is supposed to be reggae, and after a while I realize it’s “I Shot the Sheriff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would smack my knuckles so hard that my hands crashed into the keys, causing an ugly dissonant chord to detonate in the middle of the piece. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“No, but I can come up with the chords if you sing it,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And yes, a big letter is called a capital because it’s important. chord/cord. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its first prelude is now very well known - and incidentally made up entirely of a chord sequence, no melody, exactly as Bach’s hero Vivaldi might have done. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What’s missing is any sense of logic in the use of these chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Edmunds fiddled a minute with her guitar, talking as she tightened the strings to the jingling of her bracelets and the thrumming of chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Strauss apparently hedges his bets, giving the first necrophiliac kiss arguably the most dissonant chord that had ever been heard. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Harmonic analysis is also necessary for anyone who wants to be able to compose reasonable chord progressions or to study and understand the music of the great composers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The music starts up again, a long, trembling minor chord. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When it landed, it unleashed a blast like a power chord on an electric guitar magnified through the world’s largest speakers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If you're not certain what chord is wanted, you can get useful clues both from the notes in the music and from the other chord symbols used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A C sharp major chord means something different in the key of D than a D flat major chord does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Emily tapped him on the shoulder, and Matthew spun, surprisingly plucking the right chord for once. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Matthew’s guitar screeched wrong chord after wrong chord as he practiced along with the music. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we hear them, we don't feel a need for them to go to other chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That is another reason why his book drew such a response—it struck a chord, because the time was ripe for such a summing up and laying of foundations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to her that as it disappeared into the darkness great chords of music came from it and echoed through the air. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They become unstable and have a tendency to unsettle the mood because they deviate from comfortable convention, seeking relationships with unfamiliar chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Write the major chord for each root given. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the opening prelude of Parsifal’s third act, the music shifts and slides around, avoiding settling on one key or chord for more than one beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Composers discovered that some chords were drawn magnetically to others: adding an F to the G major triad, G-B-D, made it yearn to move towards the C major triad, for example - of which more shortly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Such a cluster of notes, known to us as a chord, did not even have a name at this time, so novel was its concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hawkins, sliding onto the piano bench, struck up the chords on the old piano and ended the pageant with, “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In most styles of music, modulation is accomplished gradually, using a progression of chords that seems to move naturally towards the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard laid down smooth chords with his left hand while the fingers on his right hand hip-hopped across the twelve-bar blues trail. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The most common additions and extensions add notes that are in the scale named by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Typically, folk, blues, rock, marches, and Classical-era46 music is based on relatively straightforward chord progressions, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If you're using a chromatic circle to transpose the names of all the chords in a piece, just make sure that you move each chord name by the same amount and in the same direction. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In other words, all chords that have only D naturals, F sharps, and A naturals, are considered D major chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I struck the beginning chord of Savien’s verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If you find that the chord progression in a piece of music suddenly contains many chords that you would not expect in that key, it may be that the piece has modulated. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t read notes in the first place but he knew a few chords. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t know whether it occurred to its strummers to play more than one string simultaneously, like a chord, or whether they only picked out one-note-at-a-time tunes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Power chords of love dropped me to my knees, spiraled into rhythm and melody, exploded in a fearless white crescendo. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In adolescence Gabe was gangly and tall, and as she watched, his elbow knocked over the mug holding his drink; the other boys chorded as he sheepishly mopped up the mess with his napkin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But for the first time Sandwich had struck a chord with him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It contains active definitions for musical terms; music lessons regarding the meanings of musical notation; and exercises designed to further understanding of musical notes, chords, and many other musical aspects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She strummed a couple of chords, then raised her face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several different types of seventh chords, distinguished by both the type of triad and the type of seventh used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In a C major chord, for example, that would be any C naturals, E naturals, and G naturals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even its opening two chords seem to be bellowing, ‘WAKE UP!’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Why is it useful to know how chords are related? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What would they become, and are these altered chords also likely to be used in the minor key? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Improvisation requires an understanding of the chord progression. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Find a teacher who is willing and able to teach you specifically about harmony and typical chord progressions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The three chords in question can be expressed as the numbers I, IV and V because they are the triads that belong to the first, fourth and fifth notes of the major or minor scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He’d play off of their riffs and not on top of them, unless they played a tidal wave of chords where everyone jammed together. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A cool blue spotlight captures swirling dust like visible chords. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you print out the chords for ‘Seven Nation Army’ for me?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The last chord from Hendrix’s guitar echoed off the hills, and the concert was over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It had a pale, bluish tinge and there were marks on its neck where the umbilical chord had strangled it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She tried to continue, searching desperately for the right chords, but the notes were discordant. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A chord bordun means that the 1st and 5th degrees are played simultaneously. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Many cultures have their own styles of arrangement, but adding piano chords or vocal harmony particularly for Asian music, is not typical. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries there was one sequence of chords that composers loved more than any other. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Matthew’s guitar screeched wrong chord after wrong chord as he practiced along with the music. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Composers of the mid- to late-eighteenth century limited themselves to a small choice of chords partly as a reaction to the harmonic style of their predecessors, but also to emphasise the primacy of the melody. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My fingernails had grown a good three inches by the time he struck his final note and called me close to point out a few simple chords. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of rushing noise, and a long chord played along with it All round the churchyard there were hundreds of old friends. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to start with simple music which either includes the names of the chords, or has simple chords in the accompaniment that will be relatively easy to find and name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hold his blues harp and sink it down between his lips while he savored those notes and chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He’d play a minor chord or two with his left hand and, with a flourish of his right, wipe his perspiring face with an enormous white handkerchief. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This means that on each I would replace the fifth note, first with a seventh then with a sixth, making two different chords, one after another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Start changing the other chords by the same amount, and in the same direction, and see if you are getting mostly easy-to-play chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A good improviser, given the name of a chord, can quickly play not only the notes of the chord but also the scale implied by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Any decent book on playing jazz, or any teacher familiar with jazz, will introduce the student to these chords and scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa tuned First Guitar and began picking an easy intro to lay out the chord changes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

These were all major chords in a revolutionary melody that most Virginians knew by heart. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Monteverdi knew that blending these related chords in one piece of music would create something tranquil, reassuring and ethereal. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They rose and fell, soared as the chords were layered atop one another. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If you are changing keys in order to make the chords easy to play, try changing the final chord so that it names an easy-to-play-in key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Soon bebop musicians began dispensing with the blueprints of the standard songs and instead invented their own chord sequences and melodies - highly complex ones at that, sometimes derived from the note combinations of unusual chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The siren noise had been made by an electric guitar, which slowly wound down and transformed into a flurry of notes and chords. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

What comes across in their work time and again is a relishing of the joys of chords for their own sake, the delicious transition from one to another and the effect it might have. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In his madrigals, Monteverdi dips in and out of all kinds of chords, many of them startlingly unrelated, in order to create ear-catching effects. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The difference is in how the chords are used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I can do that,” I answered quickly, forming the chords with my fingers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If you don't like playing some of the chords in your new key, or if you have changed the key too much or not enough, try a different transposition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I struck the first chord hard and waited as the sound of it began to fade without drawing a voice from the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Identify the relationship of each chord to the key by both name and number. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Chords built only of consonances sound pleasant and "stable"; you can listen to one for a long time without feeling that the music needs to change to a different chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When sharps and flats are used, remember that the alteration is always from the scale of the chord root, not from the key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Emily tapped him on the shoulder, and Matthew spun, surprisingly plucking the right chord for once. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After every two words he gasped and dragged the air over his vocal chords, making a sound like an inverted grunt. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the way he plays the chords I can tell he’s been asked to sing it before. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Notice that IV in the key of B flat is an E flat major chord, not an E major chord, and vii in the key of G is F sharp diminished, not F diminished. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The interweaving, flowing lines of equal voices began to make way for a new and fashionable triumvirate in music: tune, accompanying chords, and supporting bass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But this fresh anger struck a deeper chord than most of his sudden bursts of frustration. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” he shouts back at me, his voice laced with fury, and I know I struck a chord. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred through the open window, and the crystals of the chandelier struck a gentle chord. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.16: Changing the spelling of any note in a chord also changes the chord's name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Everything from chords, their order, and who would do what. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A guitar44 player, given a piece written in A flat for keyboard, will often prefer to play it in A or G, since the fingerings for chords in those keys are easier. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For guitarists, pianists, and other chord players: Get some practical practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

NOTE: The type of interval or chord — major, minor, diminished, etc., is not important when you are determining the position of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty easy. You open the synthesizer and record a melody. Then you add background chords and harmonies. And then you mix in other instruments.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The violins pluck over the booming chords of a piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So Debussy’s hanging chords, with the dampers kept away from the strings, represented a kind of return to nature, a move away from the more artificial sound of block chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.8: These are also all G chords, but they are four different G chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet he learned each chord, each fingering after being shown just once, no stumbling, no complaining. And when he did make a mistake it was never more than once, right?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Usually we start with a repetition of basic scales and chords. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

If the final chord is the tonic of either the major or minor key for that key signature, you have almost certainly identified the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the sequence first started appearing profusely in the late seventeenth century, the norm was to cycle through just three or four chords rather than the possible chain of twelve. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What’s more, even very skilled composers decided there were really far too many chords available and that they needed far fewer for their purposes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For example, when you sing a melody by itself, you may be able to "hear" in your mind the chords that usually go with it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, it changes again, turbulent chords circling back into something familiar—the Elton John songbook. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So profoundly responsive a chord had the tale struck in me that the threats of my mother and grandmother had no effect whatsoever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can do nine keys, even ten, to make a chord, but to be honest, that sounds weird. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

First, he kick-started a craze for extravagant, Hallowe’en-style music, full of dark, deep, crashingly loud chords and abrasive strings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As we enter the choir room, Mrs. Spitz plays heavy chords on the piano. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When there are more than two notes sounding at the same time, that's a chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When this happens, enharmonically spelled notes, scales, intervals, and chords, may not only be theoretically different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Change fingerings and chord voicings, and again listen carefully to how that changes the sound to your ears. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

You'll find that although the chords change from one key to the next, the pattern of major and minor chords is always the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But the parts have basically the same rhythms, so that the effect, when sung together, is of chords being sung. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This marked the first time Pacheco had seen him fly, and his heart twanged like a melodramatic soap opera chord. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was it just in his madrigals that Monteverdi started shifting chords around for the sheer surprise and delight of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In root position, the root, which is the note that names the chord, is the lowest note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The last chord of most pieces will usually be the chord that names the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The song he was still playing, my song, drifted to an end, the final chords shifting to a more melancholy key. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the best music my brothers and I had ever heard, with gorgeous cascading chords and an electrifying ragged timing, which compelled the audience to get up and dance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Thankfully my injured thumb was on my chording hand, where it would be a relatively minor inconvenience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this can be a little confusing, particularly when different systems use the same symbol to refer to different chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Composers and music arrangers can jot down a piece of music without having to "pick it out" on an instrument to find the notes and chords they want. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was the Devil's son-in-law, all right, and he was a man who could whistle a three-toned chord . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now this triad of G yearns to move to the chord lying a fifth below it, C. Adding a seventh to C will make it yearn to move to F, and so on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He did the same thing each time the ball left his fingers to hunt the chords. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at some chord progressions from real music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because major scales always follow the same pattern, the pattern of major and minor chords is also the same in any major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A mad organist thumped my panic chords. “...if you’d like to.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Romantic-era47 music also tends to use more complex chords in greater variety, and is very likely to use chords that are not in the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For example, if, in an augmented G sharp major chord, you rewrite the D double sharp as an E natural, the triad becomes an E augmented chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The intervals between the notes are different, so the chords sound very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now see if you can identify these chords that are not necessarily in root position. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was a newcomer, a black man in what was historically a white man’s business, surfacing from obscurity with a weird name and odd backstory, hoping to strike a chord with the common Democrat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As I held the guitar over my head, the metallic ringing segued into a guitar power chord that echoed throughout the cave. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He struck a minor chord, looked into the eyes of his oldest child and smiled a crooked smile. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling chord—to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole present aim was to cheer him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.29: The note following the slash is the bass note of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, a song that does not end on the tonic chord will sound quite unsettled and even unfinished to most listeners. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A diminished chord is built from two minor thirds, which add up to a diminished fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There is widespread agreement on how to name chords, but there are several different systems for writing chord symbols. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The alteration — for example "flat five" or "sharp nine" — is listed in the chord symbol. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What is at work here is a logic in the progression of the chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She played a chord, then another, added in a few silver notes from her right hand, pushed once on a pedal, and was gone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I'm done, Roza holds the last chord as long as the piano will sustain. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her voice trailed, dipped and bowed; she gave a chord to the simplest words. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If some keys are easier for you to play in than others, you may want to check to make sure the key you choose has "nice" chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Decide what notes must be in those chords, find a practical fingering for them, play the notes and see what they sound like. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Palestrina uses closely related chords throughout, moving from one to another slowly and gradually, and the overall impression is one of stability. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In order to emulate a whole band - bass, accompanying chords and tune - the solo pianist had to leap about the keys frantically, resulting in a rather virtuoso left-hand motion from bass to chord and back. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For many people, this cadence will be familiar as the "Amen" chords at the end of many traditional hymns. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In particular, notice that some symbols, such as the 11minus11 sign and the triangle, can refer to different chords, depending on the assumptions of the person who wrote the symbol. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Of course, you can still talk about the interval between any two of the notes in a chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For songs that you do know the chords to, try playing them in an unfamiliar key, or see if you can change or add chords to make a new harmony that still fits the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Change the bass notes of the chords to see how that changes the sound of the progression to your ears. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Delores only taught her about the different scales, the major and minor chords, the values of the notes, and such beginning rules as those. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She attacks each chord with vigor, like the spirit done took over her whole body. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And even though he bought a used acoustic guitar last year, it’s more for decoration and to act cool while strumming a chord than anything else. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden Miss Love hopped up like she’d sat on a pin, plopped herself down on the piano stool, and went to playing chords. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Armed with harmony, rhythm, a large palette of chords, and most importandy the ability to write all of these down, its most innovative sounds expanded rapidly throughout Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the time I struck the third chord everyone knew what it was: “Tinker Tanner.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was like counting and hearing the chord changes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.23: There is unfortunately a wide variation in the use of chord symbols. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He strums a chord and takes a long swig of beer. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“The Italian stallion,” he chorded, a dual reference to the heritage of our new neighbor, Marcellus DiAngelo, and his obsession with physical fitness. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Clayton liked the sounds and the beats, but he missed chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But changing the note names or adding different-named notes, will change the name of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Bebop defied these conventions on several layers: solos increasingly drifted away from the chord sequence and even the key-family of the original song, and they habitually veered off from the given song melody, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She hands me a guitar and teaches me a few chords. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What do you need to know to be able to name most chords? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following chord progression is in the key of G major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Such a note may be a pitchless sound, like a drum beat or a hand clap, or it may be an entire chord rather than a single note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If, for example, we are in the family or key of G, the chord of G - the triad G-B-D - is ‘home’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In many cuentos I had heard the owl was one of the disguises a bruja took, and so it struck a chord of fear in the heart to hear them hooting at night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mislaid rope may be called a lost cord, but the familiar musical phrase is lost chord. climax/crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our ears, though, believe we have heard full chords, a whole accompaniment, from this one solitary instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everything was difficult and odd, and the theme songs all had minor chords. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two pieces from the era in question - one from 1762 and the other from 1808 - demonstrate the ubiquity of the I, IV and V chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His echo was strong and sad and rang with a steely chord of disbelief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was richer, more complex—a chord as opposed to a note. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She showed them chords, where to move their hands, which part of the drums to hit and when. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dufay builds an identifiable melody, nestled among harmonious chords that lead along the arc of a phrase towards a satisfying cadence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rasheed chorded and shook his head, but Mariam thought she saw uncertainty in the way he crossed his arms, the way his eyes shifted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Mostly, but he did have trouble, just the same as anyone else. E chord. He had a lot of trouble with greater and diminished E.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He finished with a chord from the strings and the last sounds shivered to silence in the cold air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is hardly anything left for all the chords that aren’t part of this mighty triumvirate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The juxtapositions continue: Fiercely oscillating piano clusters battle pugnacious figures on the violin; passages of dreamy Romantic lyricism are interrupted by slammed piano chords, sometimes played with the forearms. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The vocal lines are direct and austere; the piano teems with rustling figurations and sputtering chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z

So onstage he excised the Eagles from the song, with his guitarist playing slow chords suggesting Prince’s “Purple Rain” instead. Music Review: Frank Ocean at Terminal 5 2012-07-27T22:12:30Z

The collection catches writers using their “vocal chords” to bemoan getting “stuck in the styx.” Spelling errors to wet your appetite and furl your brow 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gibbard asks in the chorus of “Black Sun,” against warbling synthesizer chords. Review: Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Kintsugi’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

I think that struck a chord with everybody. Zombies, Aliens and Robots: The ‘Walking Dead’ Producer on Her Greatest Hits 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

There were appealing moments in the Scherzo, like the contrast between the thunderous chords and descending runs and a more alluring touch over all. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini in a Piano Concert at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-22T21:46:40Z

There’s a nearly fixed structure in pop music, and a best-selling chord progression, I-V-vi-IV. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Same Old Story,” with wavering, unstable keyboard chords and eerie sustained strings, is a tender accusation: “Promising we’ll stay together/ Down in your heart, you know better.” John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The guitarist Gemma Thompson, making eighth-note patterns, oblique and ringing chords, and waves of agitated noise, didn’t quite bring the elegant presence that you hear on the record. Music Review: Savages Brings Its Intellectual Punk to Webster Hall 2013-07-12T21:12:05Z

Mr. Jonsson, the conductor, making his New York debut, sometimes extended the opening and closing chords of the excerpt in an attempt to give the singers more rest. ArtsBeat Blog: A Magical Musical Moment, Extended to 12 Hours 2011-11-20T01:16:06Z

But she never looked so movie-star glamorous as she does here — her coiffure virtually requires that the Motion Picture Academy create an Oscar for Best Hair — nor struck so plangent a chord. Inception: Whose Mind Is It, Anyway? 2010-07-14T22:00:00Z

Ventures founders Bob Bogle and Wilson were bricklayers when they bought guitars and chord books at a pawnshop in Tacoma in 1958. Don Wilson, guitarist with The Ventures, dies in Tacoma at 88 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Boise is eminently livable, small but spirited, and Mr. McIntyre’s earnest, athletic choreography, often inspired by American themes, strikes a particular chord here. Boise and Trey McIntyre Project in a Deep Passion 2010-08-13T19:05:00Z

He also incorporates space as a fundamental parameter in composition, but, in order to be understood, he uses very simple material, a repeated chord. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Both musicians know their jazz but stay largely within the handful of traditional bluegrass chords, although Mr. Thile did allow himself to tease at some jazzy chords as they played a fiddle-tune request. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z

During the closing burst of chords, Mr. Schiff kept lifting himself off his bench, which almost slipped completely away from the piano. Music Review: Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-01T23:23:53Z

Then he built a chord progression under them on guitar, discarding some obvious choices — “I don’t want to throw down the first thing that fits” — before adding rhythm guitar chords, low and then high. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It was Oh who kept the beat, providing impediments of her own with unexpected chords on the electric bass, while Wendel and Stevens doubled on a slowly developing melody. Review | An evening of exceptional rhythm from jazz bassist Linda Oh 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

And on Saturday evening, in the last of three concerts by the Saito Kinen Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Seiji Ozawa touched both the internationalist and the personal chords. Music Review: Adding Another Layer to ?War Requiem? Story 2010-12-19T23:24:23Z

It’s just four chords, mostly guitar, voices and percussion, but its layers are endlessly varied. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

It spread the message of recycling to a wide market and touched a chord with many readers, who went on to set up Womble Clean- ing Up Groups on Wimbledon Common and elsewhere. Elisabeth Beresford obituary 2010-12-26T17:08:28Z

Robinson sometimes imparted brief harmonies with deep vibes chords; Noble made twanging jaws-harp noises with the edge of a small cymbal; and episodes of almost laid-back shuffling periodically decelerated the generally hell-driving momentum. Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith – review 2012-08-29T14:31:43Z

A dull, dissonant chord releases a dark haze, and from there on the music proceeds in an opposition between human gait and atmospheric forces. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Yet this conductor also brings shape and direction to Puccini’s frenzied bursts of descending chords, which cut off at the ends of staggered mini-phrases, as if the orchestra is gasping for breath. The Best Opera Recording Ever Is Maria Callas Singing ‘Tosca.’ Hear Why. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

But she realizes, “This feels the same without the bad things,” leading into a chorus that switches to euphoric major chords and promises “Whenever you want me I’ll be around.” Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Just one of Mavis’s long moans, Cleotha’s swoops into a minor key, or a trembling chord on Pops’s guitar could instantly evoke the world they’d left behind.” Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z

The opening alternates short flourishes of majestic chords with curious strands of lacy lines that trail up the keyboard. Review: Maurizio Pollini Finds His Verve at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

It’s totally clear from the characters’ perspective why you’re singing in this key or why this new chord should be there.” Musical Couple Turn to Aviator and His Wife 2011-08-20T19:30:23Z

“Kraft” begins with spasms of thick chords that slowly disintegrate, until only scraggly lines for cello and clarinet are audible. Music Review: Clash! Bang! Clink! Went the Orchestra 2010-10-08T17:47:00Z

In a pattern that he kept repeating, he whomped a low string, then tumbled into articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance. Review: Circuit des Yeux, With Haley Fohr’s Deep Vocals, Seeks an Essential Truth 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

A, D, E minor, runs the chord progression. Is This the Dirtiest Song of the Sixties? 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The song starts with unmistakable flourishes from the dance-music playbook: a throbbing beat and four piano chords. Dancing Away From the Bleak Life With ‘Fast Car’ 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

A lawyer for the estate says that it was the chord progression from Wolfe's song that made "Stairway to Heaven" the iconic hit it became. The Latest: Lawyer says 'Stairway to Heaven' riff not stolen 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

But when it played songs like “Numb” and “Breaking the Habit” alongside newer ones from “A Thousand Suns,” keyboards loomed where guitar chords used to charge in. Music Review: Unafraid of Altering a Winning Formula 2011-02-06T22:43:51Z

A placid opening sequence doubled as raw material, the regularly paced, mostly consonant piano chords providing receptacles that Mr. Stone refilled with wobbly, warbling tones and voices to create harmony and counterpoint. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z

His own music, then and later, became a new form of highly informed folk song: deceptively simple melodies for small groups with an intuitive, collective language, and a strategy for playing without preconceived chord sequences. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Diffuse pungent orchestral harmonies, with pitches that split and chords that slide, cushion the tender vocal writing. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The final section is a barrage of spiraling runs and pugnacious chords. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

The music rests on root chords, drones, feedback and repeated patterns from two guitars. Kim Gordon, Ex-Sonic Youth, Never Trained for This Career 2013-09-06T15:39:47Z

O’Donovan’s songs are rooted in folk tradition but full of musical surprises: daring melodic leaps, unexpected chord progressions, subtle rhythmic shifts. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Because the cyst was internal, instead of being visible on the outside of the chord like a node, all the doctors saw was the damage it was causing. Tenor Villazon making Met opera comeback 2013-11-22T15:45:13Z

He’s thankful he hasn’t received any complaints — except for a time when he was playing Stockhausen’s “Klavierstück IX,” which begins with the same chord repeated well over 100 times. Not Just a Philharmonic Residency: Daniil Trifonov Is a New Yorker 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

But it is a common humane chord that chimes here, in a story inspired by an actual incident and staged cogently and thoughtfully. Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z

On albums such as “Blue Train” and “Giant Steps,” Coltrane had gone to an extreme, making tunes that changed not only their chords but their entire keys every few beats. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

He feared the window had closed for good, but with everyday practice, single notes became scales, and his smallish hands became strong enough to form chords. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z

But just a few moments later, the strings flood back, violas and violins swooping up through a sudden chord that conjures folk fiddling, energy, passion, life itself. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Baird’s vaporous voice quivers with unrestrained feeling, but the underlying chord progression provides a calming foundation. Gucci Mane’s Tribute to Takeoff, and 6 More New Songs 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

There are plenty of songs about love and regret, and there are plenty of sad chords. Jack Antonoff Doesn’t Want to Just Take Up Space 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The vocal lines lift the words almost reverentially, accompanied by sparse chords and gentle ostinatos. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was more a sighing series of thick, textured chords. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

Reversed keyboard chords swoop into earshot; a patient beat is built out of static and, eventually, drum-kit sounds. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the manner of Ligeti, sustained, mostly subdued chords kept going out of focus, with pitches slipping into piercing clusters, then slipping back into shimmering tonal harmonies. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

There’s always tension in the sustained string chords of the soundtrack, and it imbues everything with suspense and darkness. The New ‘It’ Trailer Is Here to Give You Nightmares 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

“But if you had E, F-sharp, G and A” — here he used a homophobic slur to characterize such a chord progression. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

Then there’s “11386,” a shimmying melody that begins with a wide-flung first section — pulpy chords resounding from Garrison’s bass — then a passage of beaming swing. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The flood also carried debris: When she returned to social media, she discovered some very real hate directed at her once it was clear that her special had struck a chord. Hannah Gadsby broke comedy. So what’s she building now? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

But as he sings “Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside,” the heavens suddenly open up with a cathedral-size chord, shimmering percussion and choirlike vocal harmonies, a paradise of pop artifice. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Wray's Green Hornet, meanwhile, finds the man who invented the power chord firmly in Rumble mode. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z

Jesus, not a happy-go-lucky guy, as we know, wails his heart out from start to finish, and seems weighed down by responsibility from the show’s thundering opening chords. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jesus Christ Superstar? and ?Camelot? at Stratford 2011-08-29T21:59:36Z

Then to his twin he instructed, “Try something else” and suggested “a more interesting rhythm that circulates around the chords.” The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

When his wife, Robin Burgess, recommended he read Blow’s memoir, Blanchard said it struck a chord. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Saariaho establishes the mystical mood of the story at the start with suspenseful orchestral murmurings, over which rising pitches stack up to form piercing, sustained chords. Review: A Newly Relevant ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at the Met 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

This pervasively soft and self-contained music emerges in staggered phrases of sustained chords and sonorities. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

The larger argument about a decline of traditional values has struck a chord with conservative French voters perennially worried about the loss of French mojo. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z

“Little ghosts of other chords just keep ringing out and you’re like, ‘Oh, that speaks of another melody, and that speaks of another feeling.’” How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Sting freely admitted to emulating Rodgers and Hammerstein — particularly Rodgers’s yearning, augmented chords — in “The Last Ship.” Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z

Rivers, 81, stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal chords at an outpatient clinic on Thursday. Joan Rivers remains on life support 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Some phrases are first sung in block chords or bits of patter, so the words come through. Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Here Mr. Lee draws wind carefully but freely through an old flute as Ms. Halvorson’s 18-string harp guitar gently surrounds him, playing speckled melodies, then long single notes, and finally a few warm, pacifying chords. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The quartet second-guessed endings and beginnings, drove deep into particular intervals rather than the flow of melodies, and made cyclones around single chords. Music Review: Abstract and Fluid Jazz 2011-02-10T23:29:00Z

But as the song’s descending minor piano chords create an undertow hinting at Bob Dylan's “Ballad of a Thin Man,” there's no promise of resolution or justice. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

At one point during “Long and Wasted Years,” I imagined his vocal chords as a frayed rope holding a broke-down engine. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Nina Osegueda’s Mrs. Lovett woos Todd with a “By the Sea” that features sinister, jabbing bass lines and monstrous guitar chords. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

It culminated on the upswing, with a passage of slowly rising chords reminiscent of the irresolute, parallel motion in “Skies of America,” Coleman’s major concerto. Ornette Coleman’s Innovations Are Celebrated at Lincoln Center 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

In “Dirt Track,” Mr. Bains sings about “squeezing glory out of three rusty chords,” which is one task he sets himself. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Countless pop songs use these chord progressions, but it has become rare to see so many such tracks atop the charts at the same time. The Music of “Hustlers” and the Soaring, Stupid National Mood Circa 2008 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

When the In Memoriam segment began, it was accompanied by Tori Kelly’s gentle acoustic guitar strumming as she started its first verse: “Well, I heard there was a secret chord.” How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

At root, the music was about R&B chord progressions. SXSW 2011 post #11: Mount Kimbie, Sharon Van Etten, Odd Future 2011-03-20T22:46:03Z

Where Stainer opts to add a diminished chord to “Glory,” Willcocks instead chooses the more symbolically rich “Word.” ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

But we believed in ourselves from the first chord we played together. Bret Michaels, Duff McKagan and Sebastian Bach Reminisce 2012-06-08T12:12:52Z

Slight melodies, clunky chord changes and imponderable lyrics leave a listener with little to latch onto. Review: Slight songs mar Neko Case's latest 2013-09-03T23:13:04Z

This impression is only enhanced by the instrumentation, as the winds dominate in quiet chords spiked with a rasp of dissonance. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s like I’ve found a whole new aisle in the art store,” says Neckel, who only knew a few chords before they connected. Inside guitarist Mike McCready and artist Kate Neckel’s ‘soul-opening’ Infinite Color & Sound project 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

But of course she can: The song is unapologetically arrogant and pugnacious over trap percussion and nagging, dissonant chords. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The album’s core style is secular gospel, with Adele’s voice gathering itself over hymnlike piano chords, seeking faith not in a higher power but in herself. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

As a simple few chords echo, Stevens sings of him "sitting at the bed with the halo at your head," of his mother transitioning into "my little star in the sky." Essential tracks: Sufjan Stevens' 'Carrie & Lowell' hits a personal chord 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Best augury for his period of tenure, however, was his handling of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, where the orchestra played their hearts out for him and the silences between the final, massive chords bristled with electricity. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2012-10-14T14:56:03Z

He said that he frequently performs such “mash-ups” in concert, and that it is possible because many pop songs involve only a handful of chords. Ed Sheeran, Accused of Copying Marvin Gaye, Testifies He Wrote His Song 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

This rhapsodic, restless eight-minute piece veers between outbursts of hurtling, thick, dissonant chords and contrasting passages of somberly reflective, more lyrical music. Alexander Schimpf and Alon Goldstein at Mannes Festival 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The opener features a 2,000-pound bronze bell sounding before Angus Young’s dirty doom chords kick in and we hear lead singer Brian Johnson for the first time. Perspective | A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

As the twin opening E flat chords of the most revolutionary symphony of all time are played by the most radical orchestra of all time, we may well find the answer. Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship 2012-06-19T16:43:02Z

“It struck a chord with me,” he said, “because I neglected her for the longest time.” Jackie Chan: ‘I hate violence’ 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Kid Koala’s pearly electric piano chords are the T4 robot’s day-to-day loneliness. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

For example, there is nothing musically extraordinary about that surprise fortissimo chord in the Andante of the “Surprise” Symphony. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

Roy Orbison – Crying Voice, chords, melody, arrangement, production, yes. Audio advent calendar: Villagers playlist 2010-12-09T13:56:00Z

I had a few chords on the guitar. Q&A with Rhiannon Giddens: The power of failure, the genius of Geeshie Wiley and why she’s ‘not just a banjo player’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

But the tempo is glacial, with an arrangement that uses only sustained, watery keyboard chords and no overt beat, as if Mr. Yorke were daring current practitioners of slow-motion alt-R&B to match his asceticism. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

It incensed social conservatives for its unapologetic depiction of female desire, but struck a chord with readers for its frank portrayal of sexual longing without moral approbation. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The way that Mr. Blumberg and Max Bloom, the band’s other guitarist, creep from one chord to the next, slowly and deliberately, is eerie, the ghost of 1992 hanging above them at all times. Music Review: Diving Into the Simulacrum, Moptop First 2011-05-08T22:17:27Z

During the enforced downtime after his accident, Bono had been writing songs, sometimes with a guitarist to play the chords he couldn’t. U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

No. 13 mesmerizes with the melody in block chords in the left hand, while the right ladles on a repeated theme above. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

“I’m a conceptualist. To me, a chord is something I put around somebody’s neck if I want to throw them out the window.” Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that’s why no one speaks invidiously of him, even though few major chords are as undiminished as his. John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Just before the guitar solo, everything stopped while singer and rhythm guitarist Moriah Formica played a dramatic chord, and the first whoops emanated from the crowd. Rock’s saviors? Ladies of Plush rock harder than most anyone 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

His band, electronics and orchestra pounded away at one droning chord through much of “What Is the Legal Status of Ice.” Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

One hears a broad swath of jazz history in her playing: boogie-woogie, swing, big-band riffs, subtle chromaticism in her left-hand chords when the band settles into a more modern trio format. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

These chords are sometimes played lithe and slicing, sometimes meaty and ripped. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

With just the three major chords in the simplest scale of all, Jarvis and co. squeezed out one of the most uplifting, funny and genuine songs that Britpop blessed us with. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In Jaufré’s music, the oboe and low strings are prominent, with harp chords connected to what would have been his instrument, the lute. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The opening phrase of the final act turns out to be another form of the Tristan chord, only darker and even more melancholy, which emphasises the tension. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

But some current references strike meaningful chords, as when added to Homer's famous listing of Trojan War ships, and in a quietly sobering recitation of the major wars waged over the centuries. Theater review: 'An Iliad' proves an ancient tale can still be meaningfully and well-told 2010-04-15T20:08:00Z

“That knack of hers pretty instantly struck a chord with the audience.” Kelly Ripa has made a career of being herself. Where does she go from here? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

He took these very tropical Cuban rhythms and added this new harmonic thing, modern jazz chords in a Latin context. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

But if these two saxophonists play with an even, almost chilly undemonstrativeness, their melodic ingenuity is dazzling – a demonstration of creativity within the strict boundaries of chord forms that almost rivals Charlie Parker's. Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh: Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh 2010-07-15T21:31:00Z

He began the following Lento in a prayerful mode that grew more passionate by degrees over bell-like chords provided by Mr. Robbins. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z

On “Nutty,” he veers toward the traditional — intimating Monk’s stride-piano technique by way of early ragtime guitar, then running through a rising sequence of diminished chords like a bebop guitarist. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Reason,” from the newly expanded version of his 2022 album, “Boy Alone,” has minor chords and grim scenarios: “I don’t know who to run to right now/Army is opening heavy fire.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the slow movement, a dirgelike theme tries to emerge from dense cluster chords. Music Review: Exploring Complex Works, Before You?ve Even Had Your Coffee 2011-01-17T22:07:33Z

Mr. Biss, or so it seemed, wanted to leave his audience with the calming major chords that end the Schumann. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

But it’s not just power chords and heartbreak anymore, although it is still that, too. Fall Out Boy on the New Album ‘American Beauty/American Psycho’ 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

As performed here Mr. Mehldau’s harmonic language, dense with wayward chords, seemed like a latter-day riff on Zemlinsky and his circle. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z

“You feel significant and insignificant at the same time – and that just strikes a human chord.” Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms at the Broad: A first look inside the 'infinite mysterious beauty' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The symphony’s five movements use reedy synthetic tones in fast, jittery, nearly nonstop pulsations, repeating and arpeggiating, coalescing into sustained chords or ricocheting from ear to ear, with melodies emerging to defy the surrounding hyperactivity. Playlistjon Pareles: A Symphony on a Chip Packed in a Jewel Box, And Visions of Love 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

Even this show’s early numbers, extolling the homespun virtues of small-town life with harmonic “aahs” and folksy bluegrass chords, have a depressive undertow. Review: ’Groundhog Day,’ All Over Again, Now With Song and Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Because for sheer, blissful enjoyment, few biographies – few books – can rival Keith Richards's helter-skelter trip through sex, drugs and chord progressions. Keith Richards's literary life is the way forward for biography 2010-12-17T11:33:26Z

The best thing about this split is that the two books hit two very different chords. APNewsBreak: X-Men poised to return to Marvel 2011-06-16T10:05:08Z

But within them, Mr. Cables revved up and soloed in long gusts, charging forward through multiple choruses, acknowledging every chord change and working in constant agreement with the songs and the players, all without grandstanding. Review: George Cables Trio at the Village Vanguard 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms Keegan’s work will touch a special chord with readers who recently attended university or watched their children navigate its shores. Tangible traces 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Social isolation is among the great themes in Houellebecq’s work, and “Serotonin” strikes its best and deepest chords on this topic. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

A reggaeton beat keeps surfacing behind him, only to melt down into sustained electronic chords and watery echoes; his vocal keeps losing its facade of confidence. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

But by the opening chords of another favourite, Mersey Paradise, it is clear that today they are very good indeed. The Stone Roses return triumphant and Manchester parties like it's 1989 2012-06-30T16:25:15Z

Hippie style, at its most feverishly vibrant, strikes a similarly dissonant chord that resonates with the fashion tribes. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

It opens with a punch to the gut — “In the fullness of time all that lives will die” — but goes on to strike a chord that is equal parts factual, thought-provoking and reassuring. A Scientist Puts Things in Perspective 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

A doyen of spiritual jazz, Mr. Sanders is known for his mantralike compositions, often featuring no more than two chords and a repetitious theme. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

For the first several weeks that challenge alone seemed almost insurmountable; the idea of shifting my hand from one chord to the next in time with a song seemed almost comical. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

Stille Rock is simply a pulsating shift between two piano chords, before a hint of percussion appears, then strings, intensifying drumming – and sudden wrongfooting silences just as resolutions seem inevitable. Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Outstairs – review 2013-07-18T21:30:00Z

In “Muscle Memory,” Kelsea Ballerini orchestrates an instinctive reunion with an old flame — “my body won’t forget our history” — with classic tools: two chords, a backbeat, a lead guitar with wordless caresses. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

After the keyboard is connected to a laptop or other device with the software, a chord might, for example, trigger a metronome and create an unexpected pulse. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin gently drew a sighing violin line and plaintive chords from the strings, and the choristers almost muttered the word “Requiem,” as if afraid to say it out loud. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

Indeed, there’s no other instrument that heightens and soothes like the piano, its melodic chords a worthy complement to stronger-sounding drums and horns. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

I gave him a tone centre of E natural and said, you can play F, G minor, E minor triad, C triad, all these chords … and he'd play all of them. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

Certainly he's one of the most underrated, his melodies devastatingly simple – Shame, a kind of It's a Sin for the indie generation, doesn't even bother changing chord until the chorus – yet also devastatingly affecting. My favourite album: The Smell of Our Own by Hidden Cameras 2011-08-16T10:14:43Z

Her musical response is the opposite of slavish: on the rare occasions that a chord is played forte, her dancers stay still. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz?s ?Untitled (the Blue Ballet)? at the Kitchen 2012-03-10T00:50:47Z

As the track evolves from gospel organ chords to a funk strut, she is blunt — “most men are garbage” — but willing to entertain other rare possibilities. A Radiohead Spinoff’s Snarling Single, and 8 More New Songs 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

On either side of the stage, two Pierrots pound plangent chords at the Mighty Wurlitzer organs, out of which sprouts metal piping, fancifully twisted like a Ted Geisel Seussaphone. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z

Rise Against struck a chord with its early independent releases. Rise Against brings political punk to mainstream 2011-05-12T14:02:53Z

Discussing his influences, he singled out The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy, saying: "There are elements in it, the way it's created and put together ... that hit a chord." Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z

Each bar represented a block of sound: a kick drum, synth chords, some percussive vocal samples. The Teen-Age Hitmaker from Westchester County 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Works by Phill Niblock require extreme dynamics — sustained at a rock concert-like 120 decibels — because only when played at high volume do seemingly static chords reveal a dazzling spectrum of overtones, interacting in complex rhythms. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Halfway through the first verse, the song falls apart: Dylan’s tricky measures trip up the under-rehearsed musicians, guitarist Bloomfield doesn’t follow the chord progression, the bass player seems completely lost. What really happened the night Dylan plugged in his guitar? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“But all those chords are so European, how could that possibly be an American R. & B. song?” Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Porter tosses off gospel inflections with ease, responding to the sighing arc of Chip Crawford’s piano chords. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

That means that the lawsuit primarily comes down to the chord progressions of the two songs, which are nearly — but not entirely — identical. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

As Clark puts it in her author’s note, “the idea of a tormented hero unjustly spurned struck a powerful chord” in post-World War I Germany. In Weimar Germany, a Passion for van Gogh Leads to Deception 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Maybe a chord came a second late, but nobody died because of it. I’m OK with that; it’s part of the performance.” ‘I Just Let Myself Go’: Igor Levit on Surviving a Satie Marathon 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

The song is breezy and light — gently strummed acoustic guitar chords, a buoyant piano riff — but as the video proceeds, a disarming sense of the uncanny creeps in. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

They contain more recognizable sounds, like the sustained piano chords and quiet-storm guitar strokes on “Pendulum” or the acoustic bass on the chorus of “Lights On.” FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Meet the Hamlet chord, a musical embodiment of the title character’s dilemma. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

He adds unctuous piano chords to a poem about Los Angeles that contrasts the seraphic innocence of its name with the oil-reek of the industry that helped make it rich. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The artifacts collected here may strike a chord if you watch late-night cartoons. A Studio That’s Animated in More Ways Than One 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

It kind of organically grew from just knowing a guitar well enough to throw some chords together, and then putting some melodies over those chords. ‘The X-Files’ star David Duchnovny has a new gig: touring musician 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

History of Love has the most basic structure – but that's OK; it only takes two chords, they just have to be the right ones. New band of the day ? No 832: Still Corners 2010-07-23T15:24:00Z

The work’s operatic character is evident in the dramatic chords that begin the opening Largo and in the dialogue that unfolds afterward, with both instruments equal partners throughout the sonata. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z

Power chords punctuated by a thumping cowbell: It’s old-fashioned, but it still works. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Why do you think this episode struck a chord the way that it did? A Song No One Remembered. A Podcast That’s Hard to Forget. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

He plays simple, simple, catchy melodies, but all his chord voicings have 40 or 50 years of this theory in them. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

The opening chords of “Purple Rain,” they’re the opening of a conversation. Darling Nikki 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

During one stretch, he sat with his hands folded in his lap while the others blustered; eventually he played one pristine, gleaming chord, and returned to watchful silence. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

During a rare quiet moment in his hotel, McKagan was playing guitar and found himself setting one of those pieces to a simple chord that became “It’s Not Too Late.” Guns N’ Roses star Duff McKagan reveals what led to his surprisingly countrified new album, ‘Tenderness’ 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Britain and America “are in a similar place culturally and artistically,” she added, so the play’s message of a woman’s struggle to overcome Russian interference clearly struck a chord with audiences and the judges. Lucy Prebble’s ‘A Very Expensive Poison’ Wins the Blackburn Prize 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

There are, after all, only so many chords. You Didn’t Write That: A Brief Guide to (Alleged) Pop Plagiarism 2012-11-08T13:00:04Z

For the final portion of this set, the three horns sustained a dissonant chord with circular-breathing techniques, while Mr. Taborn and Mr. Baku fed a silvery churn. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Compared with past movement leaders — Barack Obama, say — he’s a forceful rather than lyrical speaker, his voice a Brooklyn-style poke in the chest, his music power chords rather than soaring arpeggios. Boos, Cheers and Talk Therapy for the Democrats in Philadelphia 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

For six months, Tone worked in obscurity, harping over harmonies, perfecting piano chords, synchronizing snaps and putting together a palate for Wale from a basement studio. Tone P was behind some of Wale’s earliest hits. But can he actually make it as a rapper? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The researchers studied trends in style and diversity as well as how harmony, chord changes and tonal quality changed over time. Study of 17,000 Songs Finds That Hip-Hop Made Most Impact 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

That sort of mentality, showing up to work every day, strikes a chord in many people. A Tireless Actress, Back at the Scene of the ‘Crime’ 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

To underscore each of these spoken words, Mr. Sondheim comes up with a pungent chord built from five notes played in arpeggio. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Don’t march up in your discerning shoes,” she admonishes in “Good Lava,” but she still favors too many Wayne Shorterish chord progressions to truly suit the easily impressed. Review: Esperanza Spalding’s Funk Enlightenment 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

When a story becomes a hit, it's because it's struck a particular chord. Why "The Help's" critics are all wrong 2011-08-16T15:59:00Z

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and the propaganda that accompanied it struck a chord with people keen for an imperial resurgence. Band of brothers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

At the piano, Kris Davis dropped harmonically restive chords in a counterintuitive march step that Gerald Cleaver, rustling around his drum kit, implicitly called into question. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Muskal’s variations, that étude soon becomes fractured and frenzied, setting off a long, expansive, sometimes fitful exploration, with pummeling rhythms, spiky chords and onrushing riffs. Music Review: Benjamin Hochman’s Deep Dive Into Contemporary Work 2014-03-11T20:53:37Z

They were written with profound concision: a handful of chords, a folky melody, a telegram’s worth of lyrics and perhaps an unfancy guitar riff. Music Review: Take a Look at His Life: They Sound a Lot Like Him (Well, Sometimes) 2011-02-11T22:46:52Z

One electric guitar chord is strummed in what seems to be 4/4 time, repeated, distorted and topped with additional noise for the first full minute of “Back to the Radio.” Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

And a duet between Ms. Davis and the alto-saxophonist Michaël Attias was full of reflective tension and sly allusions to the chord changes of “All the Things You Are.” Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z

That frustration runs like a major chord throughout the film, and it's impossible not to think it is one shared by the filmmaker. 'Whitey' documentary indicts more than just James J. Bulger 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“We’re not meant to be our own angels all the time,” Mering sings on “The Worst Is Done,” atop incongruously sunny guitar chords and bouncy percussion. Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Other strings enter with sustained tones that build into elemental chords, pierced by eerie, high lines on the violins. Music Review: The Tale Those Strings Can Tell 2011-02-04T23:57:02Z

But Mr. Andriessen’s accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop. Music Review: Louis Andriessen Series Continues at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-19T21:58:00Z

Like most of Feldman’s works, this soft-spoken composition uses minimal, spare gestures and notes: just gentle cluster chords and fragments. Conor Hanick Plays Contemporary Work at Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

On the new version, as Perdomo alone carries its downward-spiraling chord progression, the pair spends nearly 10 minutes wandering into and away from the song’s wistful melody, as if reliving a distant memory. Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s the kind of rhetoric that strikes a chord in the nation’s capital, a city whose primary industry — jobs associated with government — has been threatened by the current administration. Hillary Clinton picked the perfect town to kick off her book tour 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

However, the series is currently at No. 1 on Netflix despite the controversies, and the heartbreaking "Silenced" in particular has struck a chord with viewers. "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" turns victims into people – but is it enough? 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamelin offered a typically virtuosic performance of the whirlwind, chaotic work, whose driving rhythms and cluster chords are interspersed with brief moments of pensive respite. Marc-André Hamelin Plays at the Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

They use chords to help them develop form, and sometimes elements of traditional pop-song narrative to achieve untraditional ends. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

“Death of Magic Thinking” meshes a pummeling march with a Bo Diddley beat and multiple jabbing, scrabbling guitars, steamrollering through a skewed chord progression and a tale of adolescent bewilderment. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

As Sheeran’s lawyers said repeatedly, what the singer was accused of copying included a stock chord progression and syncopated rhythmic pattern. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

However, the statement released by the band did not address other troubles, and it said Caleb "suffered from heat exhaustion and dehydration ... causing his vocal chords to seize." Kings of Leon vow to redo 'too hot' Dallas show 2011-07-31T19:27:08Z

That version incorporated the beat-box rhythm, a brisk double time, as part of its beat, and accompanied him with electric-keyboard chords. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z

I also thought of my husband and remembered performing the song together, picturing his hands forming the chords. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The last chord was still ringing when a fireworks display bloomed over the river. ArtsBeat: Mumford & Sons Begin U.S. Tour in Hoboken 2012-08-02T09:21:07Z

The dual sensibilities of Ms. Brooke and Guthrie meshed in an exquisite rendition of “This Land Is Your Land,” which she outfitted with minor chords. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z

I was inspired, as were tens of thousands of other kids in the UK, to pick up an instrument and try to thrash out a couple of chords. The Beatles at 50: The Quarrymen 2012-10-02T21:03:23Z

“The second one I made was even playable, and I learned to chord a D on it,” he told Frets magazine in 1980. Bert Jansch, Influential Guitarist, Is Dead at 67 2011-10-06T03:47:15Z

He pointed out that the chords in Beethoven’s plea for peace, “Dona nobis pacem,” at the work’s end conclude without a firm tonal or rhythmic resolution. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

A few chords, a clear melody and succinct verse-chorus-bridge structures are filled with darkly allusive lyrics and floated amid gauzy, sweeping guitar effects. New Music: Dum Dum Girls, Peggy Sue and Helen Sung Release Albums 2014-01-27T22:37:10Z

The music for the central “Star Wars” saga was consistently extraordinary even when the films themselves failed to strike a chord. John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

At some point, you will need restless chords to communicate the misery of realising that one is gay. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z

He was equipped with three guitar chords, a screaming vocal style and an endless stream of punchy, provocative lyrics aimed at the Establishment in all its forms. David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ax was commanding in the difficult piano part, which is full of leaping chords and fitful, keyboard-spanning runs. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z

“It encouraged new ways of human connection and struck a chord that continues to resonate far beyond El Paso in the USA and Juarez in Mexico,’’ museum director Tim Marlow said in announcing the prize. Teeter-totters at U.S.-Mexico border win UK design prize 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Both of them are more musical than me, and I felt embarrassed to always offer up the most predictable note, the vanilla pop chord; never finding an exotic minor triad like they did. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

As a rumination on grief, James Ijames’s play strikes a chord. Review | Constellation Theatre’s ‘Moon Man Walk’ stumbles through a cosmic voyage of love and loss 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The album’s tender piano chords, steel guitars and lush analog quality recall Smith’s ’60s era recordings, a template known as the “Connie Smith Sound.” 54 Albums Later, Connie Smith’s Defiant Heart Has Plenty to Say 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Still, it touched enough responsive chords to generate healthy international box office figures. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, Perez spaced chords beautifully across the range of the keyboard and embellished lines with high-register filigree in his right hand, hinting at the theme without stating it explicitly. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z

Though the harmonies are lush and beautiful, the chords and tonality are continually unstable. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z

As for why it has struck such a chord, Finn says, “Her show makes the Constitution very, very human.” ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ is coming to the Kennedy Center, with its star 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Gerstein, who has played the piece many times, calmly negotiated its furious runs, granitic chords and tender wandering. Review: A Concerto Conjures the Creation, With Video 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

And now that a new documentary, I Am Big Bird, tells the story of the man behind the bird, the bearer of some of the most endearing vocal chords on television is getting his due. This Is What It's Like to Play Big Bird on Sesame Street for 45 Years 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Even when chords were stacked with notes, and complex or thematic lines evolved in pointillist explosions, every musical gesture was lucid, almost like a gift. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

He was accompanied, for much of the concert, by a string quartet that expanded his filigreed guitar parts with hints of fiddle tunes, swelling chords and flickers of pizzicato. Music Review: Declan O’Rourke at the Irish Arts Center 2013-04-25T21:24:15Z

"New Year" was a highlight, with its quicker drum pattern and clever chord progression. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z

At this stage in Shorter’s career, he often changes chords and even entire keys on virtually every beat — and this music was no exception. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Fifth’s Sarabande is unique among the suites for not containing chords. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

And the song structures revel in thick chromatic chords and rising, uplifting key changes — especially “Blast Off,” the album’s finale, which dreamily, repeatedly ascends as Mars asks, “Can we take it higher?” Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

I had these fragments and ideas of chord movements, improvisations, and some voicings that we hadn’t used before — slightly spiky, fourths and sixths rather than thirds and fifths. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Bartok’s Sonata is thick with feisty harmonies, leaping chords and pummeling rhythms. Music Review: Exploring Complex Works, Before You?ve Even Had Your Coffee 2011-01-17T22:07:33Z

The ominous tones and tense chords influenced film composers as well as underground musicians, who built on his innovations to create evocative instrumentals. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

This work, a single 18-minute movement, begins with the piano playing a murmuring, repetitive figure and softly chiming chords. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

This beautifully written story of an ethnic Korean family living as second-class citizens in Japan is a compelling read all on its own, but it struck a chord with us for personal reasons. New & Noteworthy, From Beautiful Crime to Essays on Identity 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

His best along these lines is “The Change, My Girl,” a slumbering ballad with a melody and chord progression that drift like cloud formations. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z

The wallpaper in the entrance hall struck a different, more romantic chord and provided important inspiration, too. Mariette Himes Gomez Decorates a Historic Washington, D.C. Home 2014-01-13T05:00:00Z

“A lot of songs are complicated — lots of chords and melodies playing all over the place,” StoneBridge said, pondering his remix’s impact. Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Each musician seemed adept and engaged, and tuning was carefully and efficiently done as often as needed; the purity of the final chords gave real pleasure. Viols give a glimpse into a musical past at the National Gallery of Art 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

And with hovering piano chords and hissing cymbal, “Down With the Clique” hints at the anticipation of Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” as Solange reminisces, “We were rollin’ up the street/Chasing the divine.” Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

"It's not hard – all you need is four chords and a really long runway." Welcome back Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2010-04-14T09:07:00Z

Near the end of the performance, he let loose with rumbling power chords. Review | The Fred Frith Trio is actually a 5-way improvisation at Rhizome 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Bouncy piano chords carry “Codes and Keys,” a song about a lovers’ quarrel partly resolved: “In separate rooms, a single life/We are one, we are alive!” Critics? Choice: Brooding Now Laced With Hope 2011-05-30T21:33:36Z

A few of the pieces turned westward, placing the rubab tune over a waltz or a gentle rock beat and basic chords. Khumariyaan Performed at Asia Society on Sunday 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

This week he released the title track, which revolves around a bittersweet, casually sketched chord progression from a reverby electric guitar. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The last movement was an uncertain triumph, with a suggestion of continuing struggle, until Stasevska savored the radiance of the closing measures’ chords. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Yet from within that weird, slippery texture, a set of solid, repeating, consonant chords emerge, bringing the movement to an unusually eerie, slow finale. Classical Recordings: Jefferson Friedman: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3; Remixes 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

He began with the dance-dedicated Whirl, a typically glittering stream of contrapuntal invention, skipping melodies and nonchalantly shifting chord patterns that occasionally suggested a distant Astaire-Rogers soundtrack. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z

Sheeran built most of the songs on instrumental tracks by Dessner: sparse piano or guitar chords leading to stately choruses, often burnished with somber string arrangements. Ed Sheeran Lets His Tears Flow on ‘-’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

After striking a giddy chord in downtown audiences, with a sold-out run in Greenwich Village, this rapping romp is angling for larger crowds through its irreverent displays of rhyming wit. How chill can Broadway get? Lin-Manuel Miranda and company throw down some ‘Freestyle Love’ to find out. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Booka Shade generally writes dance tracks rather than pop songs: four-bar modules of beat, riff and sometimes chords, repeating some elements to segue into new ones. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z

The song, set to classic Chuck Berry chords and riffage, updates the nativity scene to the modern day. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Nézet-Séguin added another of those moments at the end of the work: a surprisingly hushed and attenuated final chord. Music Review: Bringing His Baton and Bold Hopes to Philadelphia 2011-01-07T23:49:54Z

“I freestyle on the guitar until I get a nugget of a rhythmic idea, a chord or a melody. Often I’ll have compositions that have weird twists and turns.” MacArthur ‘genius’ grants launch winners from obscurity: ‘Now I feel like I’m working with a face’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Rough-edged chords in the piano mirrored the fragmentary nature of Sappho’s surviving texts, which Ms. Horner-Kwiatek delivered with vibrant ardor; the clarinet, evoking sounds of nature, helped anchor the song in place. Review: Locrian Chamber Players, With Music Wrapped in Temporary Mystery 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

This is an exaggeration, I know, but it will strike a chord with film-makers. Why British film is all kitsch 'n' sink 2013-06-22T16:45:01Z

In one piece, he mimicked the cadences of a stock-market report on Chinese television, tracing its notes and rhythms, then improvising melodies on top of those notes and embellishing the sequence with chords. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Then, taking charge, she dispatched bursts of brittle chords, tossed off creepy-crawly runs and kept bringing out both the sweetly melodic and industriously steely elements of the three-movement work. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Or “No, they’re not going to use those Martian chords, I better get rid of those and just put E, A and B in there. or else they’re going to fight it.” “Music is so abused these days”: XTC’s Andy Partridge opens up about songwriting, painting and developing the “cruel parent gene” toward your own art 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Playing through the “Russian Dance” movement from Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka,” which begins with a giddy riot of propulsive parallel chords for both hands, Mr. Trifonov kept repeating passages, even though they sounded flawless. Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Spalding arrived on stage to sit at a dimly lit stageside armchair while her cellist, violinist and viola player sighed softly romantic chords. Esperanza Spalding ? review 2011-04-11T17:30:41Z

The foursome brought a warm, burnished sound to the quartet’s lyrical opening, soon flecked by chord attacks so sharp they were almost crunchy. Ehnes Quartet wows crowd in closing chamber-fest concert 2014-02-03T17:59:31Z

In typical I Low fashion the melody and chords are as important as the production, which accentuates creaking from pedals of an organ. Premiere: 'Woman I Know' by Tacoma's I Low 2012-06-12T14:52:02Z

If a musical language is saturated with seventh chords, then the harshness of that embedded interval becomes the norm, not the exception, which softens the dissonance without sacrificing the pungency. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

During the opening section, as the sound lingered after each statement of the chord motif, a lacy hint of a melodic line trailed slowly up the keyboard with eerie calm. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

On the Internet, there’s this thing where this band plays the same four chords, and they do 75 hit songs with the same four chords in the exact same pattern. Robin Thicke on ‘Blurred Lines’ and Learning From His Mistakes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Polaris culminated with a final chord of blinding intensity that Michael Tilson Thomas and the young players of the New World Symphony played with visceral commitment. Come to Miami Beach for sun, sand ... and classical music 2011-01-28T16:14:17Z

She ended her set with “Higa Noboru,” a ballad set to impressionistic piano chords: “I hear the fish calling from the ocean/I hear the birds warning from the sky,” she recited. Music Review | 'We Are Plastic Ono Band': Amid All That Experience, Innocence 2010-02-18T00:28:00Z

Favoring lissome, clearly articulated block chords, he turns corners tightly, and clears many landings on his way to completing a longer thought. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Van Zweden intriguingly had the strings give some extra pinch to dissonant intervals and chords, and brought out the subtle urgency that courses below the surface of this ruminative piece. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

At the end of the song, as Beyonce rises from the piano with a final chord, the camera turns and reveals that her husband Jay Z was the one filming. Listen to Beyonce's Surprise New Song 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

It clawed at the limits of verses and choruses, screaming melodies of its own, making notes slide and wriggle; sometimes it scraped out funky, contentious rhythm chords. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

This time the Communists are in drab uniforms, and the music is raw with clashing chords and jagged bursts. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

I’m often impressed by decisions I made as a younger man, and wonder how I knew how to do that, that that chord follows that particular cadence. With ‘57th and 9th,’ Sting Changes His Mind About Rock 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

A few happenstance listeners clapped to the rhythms of Mr. Grant’s piece — a series of simple, repeated chord progressions, to which a few players contributed spicy lead lines — and others joined the parade. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z

Language is malleable and elusive, as easily lost as an evaporating musical chord. Pulling back for the big picture of media overload 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

But when all worked right, with the drummers in loose, synchronized swing, the low-end horns bracing the giant chords, and a little improvisational chaos on top, there was something deep and noble happening. Review: The Vision Festival Gives Experimental Jazz a Big Hug 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

It is punctuated by slightly-off-the-beat doggie yips; it is sung in the glazed cadences of a psych-ward nurse; it is graced by chord progressions that would insult a kindergartener. ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

I picked up a second-hand 1970 album called Ready When You Are JB, with Midnight Cowboy as its opening track, and discovered some of the most unusual and beautiful chord changes in pop. John Barry: The composer who was as pop as the Beatles 2011-01-31T12:49:27Z

Hugo White was 16 and couldn't play a bar chord. The Maccabees: last of the great indie guitar bands? 2012-05-17T19:30:01Z

In the finale, fleeting bits of melody never complete themselves and keep breaking off into episodes of repetitive, oddly hymnal chords. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

I had a guitar, and I knew a couple chords, and you realized you could play that Ramones song, and it’s like, Jesus, every Ramones song is just that? The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The piece ends with blissful “Alleluia” refrains as crystalline chords cascade in the piano and percussion. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

I’ve spent hundreds of hours in studios and sat among well-dressed audiences marveling at a perfectly turned foot or beautifully struck chord. Lonnae O’Neal: The (painful) birth of a basketball dad 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

This melodic phrase repeats, quieter, played just by the first violins, with soft pizzicato chords in the other strings. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

For hours at a time, I would practice finger positions and how to build chords. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Each repeated phrase resolved itself with soft chords. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Underneath him, Mr. Klein added a sequence of tolling chords — sometimes ironic, sometimes plainly lovely. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

She carried the banjo with her and no sooner fingered her first chord than she found she had also written her first song. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z

Ditto for the trio’s version of “Human Nature,” the Michael Jackson hit produced by Jones, which rose from moody ruminations to a passage of dancing left-hand chords under a right-hand trill. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander proves he has all that jazz 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

His nine-member ensemble performed selections including the jubilant “Optimism,” the foot-tapping “Digression on the History of Jews and Black Music” and “Dialogue With My Great-Grandfather,” in which a somber tune unfolds over dignified chords. Music Review: Kronos, Asphalt Orchestra and Jacob Garchik Perform 2013-07-29T21:27:41Z

I knew it would work in some way, but I didn’t realize it’d hit such a chord in society at large. How an 80-Minute Polish Film in Black and White Became a Breakout Hit 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sometimes Wu Wei sounded like a human whistle; at others he played in chords — sometimes with smooth sound, other times almost with bubbling undulation. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z

At what was reportedly his first New York appearance since 1972, he unleashed heavily fuzzed blues lines and precise but frenetic scrubbing chords, bristling and untamed. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z

Tyner’s harmonic language was based on quartal chords and pentatonic scales, while Jones played every permutation of threes and fours within the beat. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

She delivers a sweet and sour mix of billowy chord progressions and quesy string and saxophone atmospherics with her quintet. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z

The next day, she and Hartman were in the studio and he played her a few quiet chords that suggested unease. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

But the song’s joyous major chords already sound as though she’s busted loose. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Though his uncle is dearly missed by family and friends, Santa Maria is glad that Jacobs’ story has since struck a chord with thousands of people. 'Uncle Bunky' of viral obituary fame inspires new beer 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing unpremeditated when he summons thick lava surges of electric-guitar distortion or when he plucks acoustic-guitar chords to ring in pristine solitude. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z

And “Up the Tower” pounds ceaselessly on one chord as Mr. Casey envisions an insurrection at the “golden door,” with the band building an overwhelming squall as he chants, “Knock it down!” Protomartyr Turns Dread Into Post-Post-Punk on ‘Relatives in Descent’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The story struck a chord and sparked a wider dialogue about maternal mortality rates, particularly for women of color. Cardi B, Serena Williams, Pink: New celebrity moms are changing the game by getting real 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Polo G’s “Last Man Standing” — with bleak piano chords and a shivery vocal sample — bitterly connects thoughts of Hampton and the Black Panthers to deep-seated systemic racism, police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. History Meets the Present on the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Album 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The chords, performed in unison by an ensemble including electric guitar, drum kit and cello, are surrounded by vertiginous breaks. Blind Listening: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

She gave him the flexibility to add unorthodox chords and dissonant textures, creating a gothic folk that distilled her tragedies and hope into the graceful “Follow the Music.” Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Joyce Fung, a senior research associate, was charged with dressing the mannequins, an act that’s a bit like adding a discordant chord to a perfectly composed melody. Perspective | How Rei Kawakubo left her avant-garde mark on the Met Gala red carpet, and the world 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Guo Shang: Hymn to the Fallen” is an elegy for dead soldiers, with gentle piano chords solemnly played here by Blair McMillen. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z

There are whole seminars on how you learn to play that chord. Singing with Gaga, a new box and jelly bean memories: Paul McCartney returns 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And “Happy and Sad,” that song for the window, featured yMusic’s members playing tiny harmonicas, making a chord that was clear and glassy. Music Review: Oceanic Passions in a Chamber Setting 2011-01-28T23:52:56Z

The composers turn up at a bar, where they encounter Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant, personifications of musical chords, carrying on. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The showy second movement is like a Hungarian folk dance, with leaping chords in the piano and the two instruments trading fancy runs and passagework. Gidon Kremer and Daniil Trifonov Team Up at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The opening A minor chord and the strong conviction in the singer’s voice hooked me. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

"There were only a couple of chords to know," Schaffer said. David Letterman recalls one of his favorite 'Late Show' moments 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The trio of female performers in “Raisin” blew away many voters, and the play strikes deep chords in the era of Barack Obama’s presidency and Bill de Blasio’s Tale of Two Cities. Shoo-Ins Are Few in Heated Tony Race 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

“She came in with a plan — ‘What if we tried this chord here? Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Find it, and highlight it, with arrangements that capitalize on the chord structure, the rhythms, the arc of the melody. On 'American Idol': How to tell the singer from the song? 2010-04-02T16:16:00Z

"And as soon as they hit a chord, well, I didn't think in my lifetime I would ever hear that." The Haden Triplets see folk as part of their musical DNA 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Such heavenly chord changes; only Scandinavians can manage this, probably because they're that much closer to Lapland. Bob Stanley's guide to writing the perfect Christmas hit 2010-12-16T22:15:01Z

Green Day heaps on the melodies and stadium shoutalongs-in-waiting, and its musical reflexes are strong, though some songs come close to recycling the band’s riffs and chord changes. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The group practises throwing strings of sounds at each other, filling their lungs and pushing their vocal chords to the limit. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z

But the chords at the end, in some performances slashing and stark, were here warm, resonant, full, even mellow. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Yet the news of Giuliani’s accidental phone calls strikes a different chord, stirring a more generalized anxiety. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The story struck such a chord with readers that it was adapted into a film two years later, becoming "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" and starred Cary Grant as the title character. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

It's easy to read his wondering lunar reflections into the panoramic sustained chords that open the work. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

I can’t hear well,” says Thielemans, cradling his harmonica, which he repeatedly uses to show a visitor a particular chord or run. Toots Thielemans: A harmonica titan looks back on a stellar career 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Most pop songs are based on a dozen or so of the most familiar chord sequences that were "discovered" in the late 18th century. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

They might have fallen out of an early Tom Waits ballad, a chest fever splashing over minor seventh chords. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

The chord progressions he uses and the way he uses voice leading is really distinctive. A Conductor Arrives at Encores! With a Jerry Herman Rarity 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

An ominous, rumbling score adds menace, suspended chords and electronic creaks suggesting a descent into some Stygian world. Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossing 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

And all of the string players confidently handled unconventional intonation in Mr. Sharafyan’s “Adumbrations of the Peacock,” a stark, mysterious and ultimately majestic concatenation of broken-bell piano chords, tremulous melodies and quivering textures. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z

One pioneer was the German rock band Tangerine Dream, which formed in 1967 and broke through in the 1970s with a sound marked by expansive synthesized washes and percussive chords. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z

The mighty opening chords of “O Fortuna” are sounds to gladden the hearts of fans of Carl Orff’s ebullient “Carmina Burana.” SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z

“I think more like a chord, where it’s a stack of notes, and Susan thinks more like a melody, where there’s a single path,” he said. ‘Maybe in Another Life’ Becomes Now 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

As we talk, Cleobury biffs out a few chords of the Mozart Requiem and then some from Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline to suggest that Mozart may have "borrowed" from his predecessor. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z

“Make My Head Sing ...” blasts those qualities away from the first notes of its opening song, “Oblivious”: loud, slow, unaccompanied, heavily distorted guitar chords, soon joined by an equally slow and deliberate drumbeat. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z

“Messiaen, Scriabin — things where the composer claims certain chords have certain colors, and that have rapturous, endless clouds of notes” were Mr. Denk’s suggestions in an email. Proposing Selections for Colorado’s Cannabis Concerts 2014-05-09T21:43:05Z

I was in the world of chords and melodies and that's a much bigger, freer world. Wayne Kramer: 'I was the white boy who played the wah-wah' 2012-10-28T14:46:03Z

We took that and we did our own Auto-Tune and built the chord structures around it. 'Kimmy Schmidt' composer Jeff Richmond on the show's viral-friendly songs 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The band then builds a storm cloud of percussion that grows black and thicker with each minute, finally resolving a gigantic guitar chords that crash like waves against a rocky shoreline. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z

Beethoven preferred musical ideas of almost unusable simplicity, things that seem pre-­musical, or ur-musical, like chords, or scales — not music, but the stuff music is made of. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

This message appeared to strike a chord with Jon, who echoed a line from the Night's Watch vows that he once swore to spend his entire life upholding. Beric Dondarrion's Speech Could Change Jon Snow's Future on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Judge Kronstadt determined that there was a genuine dispute as to whether several elements - including signature phrases, hooks, bass lines, keyboard chords and vocal melodies - were similar. Blurred Lines dispute to go to trial 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Glyndebourne's new production, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, began with a big bang: literally, in the form of the solemn opening chords of the overture. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

His unorthodox, open chord gestures seem to melt into each other, while his lucid melodic runs are imbued with warmth by the young bassist Jaco Pastorius. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

Its track revolves around an insistent, lo-fi piano figure, and its chorus first arrives with Mr. Legend nearly alone, singing over simple, fading chords: pop with all of its misgivings built in. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Maybe you wanted to hear guitarist Drew Doucette’s chords a little closer. After a long hiatus, Beauty Pill returns with vigor and a new record 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Gaisford said he’s since received messages from around the world, and believes his video struck a chord because loneliness is something that is experienced globally. Man's video admitting 'I have no friends' resonates online 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

All of the rustic beauties in the piece came through vividly, from the warm way the strings played the series of opening chords in the first movement to the brassy fanfare flourishes of the finale. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Elegantly voiced chords morphed into sharp snippets of melody, glistening scales climaxed with sudden silences, whispered figures up in the stratosphere of the piano were answered with rumbling double octaves down below. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

He floods the mix with volume, but the reverb and digital effects round off the edges of his attack, as if his chords are sounded by an unseen force. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Welcome Reality opens with two minutes of portentous synthesiser chords. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z

Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The piece ends in resignation, although the seemingly calm chords are spiked with pungency. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

She insists on a certain equilibrium — “I’m not holding on/I’m not letting go” — as sustained chords and twitchy electronic rhythms come and go. 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Built around simple piano chords, Blumberg's delicate whisp of a voice and what sounds like the hum of a tape recorder, it's a beautifully fragile lament. New music: Oupa ? Windows 2011-08-18T13:47:07Z

Eisenberg boasts a wide expressive range on guitar and banjo, sometimes playing in lonely, resounding single notes, elsewhere in convexly shaped chords. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

But Thompson’s writing contained unusual turns: a chord change on every other beat in the étudelike “Monsoon”; a waltz with unusual harmonic wending in “Soul-Lullaby”; a masked blues form in the theme of “Prey-Loot.” Music Review: A Jazz Pianist Pays Tribute to a Neglected Composer 2009-12-17T06:09:00Z

Townshend tried making up for his failing vocal cords with a furious windmill delivery of perhaps rock’s most famous power chords. Pete Townshend has a cold. But the Who still thrilled Verizon Center. 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Dear White People” struck a chord, earning a festival award for breakthrough talent. Directors From Sundance on What Happened Next 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The ambiguity ends as bursts of brass, spiky chords and jittering rhythmic figures send the music into dizzying spirals. Music Review: Honeck Steps In for Dudamel With Philharmonic 2014-03-28T21:28:42Z

On one hand, there's something objective and even systematic about Adès's harmonies: there are some quasi-serial aspects to the way his chords work that could generate a virtually infinite ocean of musical possibilities. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z

“Nothing says amen quite like the sound of Pops strumming a deep, tremolo-heavy open chord,” Guitar World observed a few years ago. Pops Staples’s Belated Finale 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

In the simple opening of the first movement’s development section, for instance, the piano plays nothing but gentle trios of chords, while the violin floats down, pirouettes, then reaches back up. Review: Paul Lewis and Lisa Batiashvili, Recital Partners at Alice Tully Hall 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

With this understanding, Cress endures and the story strikes a resonant chord: Like Cress, we must all continue to seek pleasure and connections in a dangerous and uncertain world. New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

With its “pillars of commanding, rich-hued chords” and “chaotic, swirling woodwind lines,” Mr. Kozinn suggested that if this “shape-shifting” tone poem had a visual analogue, it might be a Jackson Pollock painting. Steven Stucky, Composer Who Won a Pulitzer, Dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

It takes more than a minor crash to derail these players, who received an enthusiastic ovation after the final chord. Chamber music fest continues with hits and near-misses 2013-07-09T16:54:45Z

The harmonically striking chords of “Rain, Steam and Speed” led to the darker hued, misty ambience of “Autopilot” and the shimmering violins and alluring orchestral colors of the concluding “Windsor Castle.” Marius Constant Work on Riverside Symphony Program 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

But in the new incarnation of “The Normal Heart,” which opened Wednesday night at the Golden Theater, anger is only one note in a polyphonic chord. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z

As sustained quiet, thick-textured string chords convey the overall calm of the scene, urban sounds intrude, with a passing fire engine, pianos playing ragtime from nearby taverns and more. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z

Though voiced by a human, FN Meka and his music — “lyrical content, chords, melody, tempo, sounds” — was derived in part from artificial intelligence, the industry publication Music Business Worldwide reported last year. Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

But too often here the orchestra chords that buttress the vocal lines were listless. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

Pieta Brown — the daughter of the longtime Iowan folk songwriter Greg Brown — sings about love and trust over the producer JT Bates’s edgeless electronic chords and sputtering 6/4 beats. Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Outtake, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

A slight figure, her eyebrows knitted with intensity, she doesn't so much play her guitar during Rider to the Sea as caress it, plucking and feeling her way through shivery chords with a Princeish sensuality. Anna Calvi ? review 2011-01-28T18:36:02Z

The shadow of late hovers over the work, like in the fortissimo chords of the dramatic “Grave,” whose leaps and dissonances seem influenced by the Grosse Fuge. Music Review: Devoted to Echoes of a Composer?s Brief Career 2011-03-27T23:07:15Z

It gave me a better sense of the basics of rhythm and helped me move beyond simple chords and isolated notes to grasp the significance of larger units, such as scales.. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

But one particular message let her know that she’d struck a chord with viewers. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

“And he turns to the piano and plays the first three chords. We literally saw him put it together and compose in that very moment. I’ve never had that happen before.” We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Last week's story on band names struck a power chord with readers, who overwhelmed us with crazy-fun names, real or imagined. Sheepnose? Readers offer real, made-up band names 2011-04-12T23:34:00Z

His mother showed him how to play his first chord on the piano. Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z

Mr. Youn struck a chord of autumnal romance, resonant with compassion and abiding love. Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z

The music is aflame with staggered, pulsing chords and desire, then settles into a long episode of dreamy, sensual allure. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The slashing chords of the “Dies Irae” never fail to jolt an audience after the serene close of the opening “Requiem.” Music Review: Tanglewood Welcomes Late Substitutes for Verdi’s Requiem 2013-07-28T19:39:40Z

Instead of guitar chords, it starts with four repeating piano notes, a chord dissected and laid bare. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The chords and tunings were Western, and the tunes were straightforward and symmetrical. Review: Gurrumul, an Aboriginal Singer, Makes U.S. Debut 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Similar nervousness pervaded the material, often bolstered by terse chords and pounding percussion. Mountain Goats bigger, but unchanged 2011-04-06T14:29:00Z

A series of chords thinning into nothing, played with exquisite transparency, announced a simple and graceful ending. Music Review: Marlboro Chamber Ensemble in Peoples’ Concert Series 2014-04-09T21:19:01Z

She writes that Daisy shows a “desire for a secure future” — a longing that seems to have struck a chord for Plath. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Indeed, "Where the Bears Are" and its raunchy humor have struck a chord in the fast-growing gay subculture of bears. 'Where the Bears Are' strikes a comic chord with a gay subculture 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

There are techniques that teach pianists to drop loose arms, almost like dead weights, into thick chords, to let body mass fortify the sound. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

Adam Granduciel sings about dreams, journeys and love over a steady, leisurely strum through two and later three chords. The Playlist: The War on Drugs and Lana Del Rey Deliver Two Kinds of Reveries 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

And while the movie has struck a chord with all ages, it has really hit home with people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, who reflect back on the untold hours they spent in arcades. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Passion Behind 'Wreck-It Ralph' 2012-12-28T13:00:45Z

Literally and figuratively Berlioz wrote the book on instrumentation, and another feature of that final summation is a series of chords combining four flutes, high and slender, with eight trombones, low and burly. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

According to Pitchfork, the album uses "specific chord progressions associated with the male character's 'earnest angst' and 'the girl's forced nonchalance'." San Fermin – Sonsick: New music 2013-06-17T16:04:00Z

"Hardline" opens the record with blaring organ chords that melt into the background as Baker's vocals kick in, narrating her relapse. Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

But the chords are wistful and pleading, as if the timid choristers, feeling unworthy, are asking the Lord permission to praise him. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

He expanded the second movement with spacious contemplation and allowed the climax – the famous 10-note chords pinched from Mahler's Tenth Symphony – to really blaze. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z

So I called home again and asked my mother to send some professional books on chords, on harmony, and on music theory. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

The way I find the forms or chords or samples that I think vocals could come out of is extremely random. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

At one point, after a lead guitar solo that led to a grand power chord, Mr. Malkmus threw both hands in the air like a rock star; a moment later he shrugged. Newbies and the Reunited Gather in the Desert 2010-04-19T21:37:00Z

Has This Hit features two separate but simultaneous guitar parts: a piercing, Edge-style one-note riff and some aching, jazzy chords, each played with greater vigour as the song goes on. New band of the day ? No 916: Zoo Kid 2010-11-24T16:48:00Z

Sustain pedal pushed to the floor, he played two notes, then more, chords, then clusters, in constant alternation. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z

In one room is Conrad Shawcross's new installation, Projections of a Perfect Third, which seeks to represent a chord in drawings, sculpture and one of the outsize mechanical systems that are his trademark. Revealed ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:39Z

They released a record that struck a chord across the world. Roger Waters to Dionne Warwick: “You are showing yourself to be profoundly ignorant of what has happened in Palestine since 1947″ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Acerbic comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers was rushed to a New York hospital on Thursday after she stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal chords, a television station reported. Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital: report 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Talbot’s mother died in 2016, which fueled the songs on “Brutalism,” the rawness of his grief and the relentlessness of the music striking a chord with critics and fans. Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

A. That was inspired by a new chord I found on the guitar. A Word With: M. Ward: M. Ward on His New Solo Album, ?A Wasteland Companion? 2012-04-01T21:03:38Z

“Nevicata” was riveting: Images of snowflakes falling from an ashen heaven are conveyed in the piano through numbing, repeated midrange tones, surrounded by elusive chords and, at the end, skittish, almost jazzy flourishes. Review: In a Flat World, a Soprano Conjures Italy 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Fure isn’t interested in “noise for noise’s sake,” but in “specific colors, colors that don’t fit into a dominant seventh chord.” Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And, of course, through it all is the music, including the title song with its fabulous opening chord. At 50, a Debut Keeps 4 Guys Young 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

I'm thinking that A Tale of Two Cities might strike a few of the right chords. 'The royal wedding of the century' ? the novel 2011-03-18T14:28:59Z

I've got a lot of lyrics and chords to relearn by Saturday night. Johnson steps in for Mumford and Sons at Bonnaroo 2013-06-14T13:36:08Z

I'd try out different chords to make it more interesting and so it would evolve. What the folk! Nic Jones is back 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z

My sense of time had been altered, so intently focused was I on the way the music changed from note to note and chord to chord. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z

The cops who arrested Gray apparently took it to another level, severing his spinal chord and smashing his voice box. Cops are the terrorists in our neighborhood: On Freddie Gray, another victim of police brutality 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

So I rarely play chords, and I rarely double the bass line.” Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

Where other pianists played light chords with their left hand and quicker notes with the right, Monk played equally complicated notes with both hands, leading to complex arrangements that traversed the entire scale. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Thelonious Monk 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

More a meditation than a song, “As the Surface Rose” revolves through four chords in a video that’s part conundrum, part rescue. Katy Perry Dances Till the World Ends and M.I.A. Starts a New Wave 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

I think “Abstract-Contact” is reminiscent of past releases because there are the traditional elements of bass and drums, and we’re back in the world of fairly traditional chord patterns, beats, and grooves. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

That track’s chord progression would test well; a program could match it up with Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar We’re Going Down” and the verses of Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen.” “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Just when the playing seems to be logically winding down, someone tinkles a chime, or strikes a chord, or hits a downbeat and everything revs up again until the next false pause. Art in Review: Stan Douglas: ‘Luanda-Kinshasa’ 2014-02-13T22:54:28Z

There’s this sense of calm, and the D major chord is rich and lush. Ethel Smyth, a Composer Long Unheard, Is Recorded Anew 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

“All the power chords we would ever need lay within reach, latent, coiled in wait.” The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Coleman freed it of its reliance on familiar chord changes and harmonic structures. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

The first one started with sputtered, curt piano chords to which the violin replied with toccatalike bursts of spiraling notes. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Warning Sign” could have been an easygoing R&B vamp, but Jadagu has other imperatives; the song coos with keyboard chords and airborne harmonies, then crashes or glitches. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

There are tinges of country twang, and plenty of guitar chords and pedal-steel whines that hang around and then slowly disintegrate. Album review: Craig Finn, 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' 2012-01-20T05:03:00Z

Some leaves of the bigger than A3-size paper contain just a single chord or collection of notes, discarded ideas to which he might return later; others contain the workings-out for whole sections of pieces. Harrison Birtwistle: the music of myth 2012-06-29T21:55:13Z

The program concluded with an animated performance of the familiar Sonata No. 4, which begins with a dreamy Andante and segues into a wild Prestissimo bursting with octaves and crazed, leaping chords. Music Review: ?Spectral Scriabin? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-04T22:54:27Z

The storm continued through Tyner’s theme song, “Blues on the Corner,” thick bass chords and rolling clusters that together coalesced into the blues. Review | McCoy Tyner proves to be worth the wait at Blues Alley 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

When he needed to descend to the depth of pathos, the maid lost, that stirring voice reduced to a microscopic fiber of a vocal chord, and all the world felt lost. Schubert's lonely hearts club band and a heart throb tenor 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

"His songs have the kind of interesting chord changes that jazz musicians can sink their teeth into," says pianist Vijay Iyer, who covered Big Brother on his last album. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

In solos, Pickens offered a profusion of ideas, switching from enormous chords shot through with dissonance to fleet phrases of considerable velocity and rhythmic momentum. Saxophonist Donald Harrison goes back to bop 2011-01-21T15:36:28Z

The sense of scale was memorable, as was Levit’s touch: densely liquid low rumbles; charcoal-black stark chords; extremely soft passages that sounded candied, like snow glittering in moonlight. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Over jazz guitar chords and drumming that races and lags, she examines a failed love affair in “With You”: “This is my happy ever suicide,” she raps. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

On the title track, a group improvisation, Mr. Garrison lays a framework of looped chords and effects, over which Ravi Coltrane ventures a soprano saxophone melody, elucidating a song form in real time. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Why did the show strike such a chord with girls watching at home? Lynda Carter Deflects Critics of Wonder Woman 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Over a murky, oozy track with synthesizer chords that climb patiently only to fall back to where they started, Masego sings about “Looking like you’re in disguise every day/Breathing my own breath.” Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a corona of reverb or distortion, or perhaps a sustained keyboard chord or a looped noise, or an unwavering one-chord strum. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z

The music switches to silky guitar chords for Future, who sings, “It’s better to be an outcast in a world of envious.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Nearly a decade and $3 million later, Hazel is back in the fully remodeled sanctuary, and heavenly chords from her pipes once again ring out in the vaulted nave of the iconic church. Pipe organ made famous on ‘Hour of Power’ program returns 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s only got three chords, just play it, stop thinking about it,’” Mr. Jagger said. The Rolling Stones Paint It Blue on Their New Album 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

There were insightful musical touches in her playing, as in the grim episode with weighty chords that leads to a contrasting playful theme. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z

At first, the orchestral music unfolds with alternating chords, bright yet ominous, packed with pitches, yet somehow lucid. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Vocal lines are set in twisting, mock-oratorical phrases as the orchestra bustles with Minimalist-like strings of racing sixteenth notes and pummeling chords. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

The opening E flat major chord, gradually building through the orchestra from a spine-tingling double bass note upwards, is mesmerising, all the cruelly exposed brass lines spot on. A rousing Ring 2012-09-25T16:40:00Z

And then, with a single note from a keyboard, a high piano chord and a whoosh from a cymbal, she launched into a song about baking. Musicals Return to Broadway With ‘Waitress’ and ‘Hadestown’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

After the opening “Scene Zero,” in which we hear Mr. Turnage’s breathless “three-bar overture,” as the librettist dubs its, the chorus of reporters introduce the story by singing sputtered vocal lines in crunchy block chords. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z

At loud chords, he cupped his hand upward. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

But before it ends, the song pivots completely, turning to slow chromatic chords and suspended vocal harmonies — a brief moment of respite. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Over a stalwart march beat, with guitar chords like distant fanfares, a prisoner prays for redemption. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

In “Echo Party,” Meath sings about “a lot of people dancing downtown,” with hi-hats and piano chords that hint at disco and house music. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

That motif is built on accordionlike layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and sinewy flutter. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

There is some skill here: strong melodies, extra chords, synthesized string arrangements, a tremendously accomplished chromatic-harmonica solo. Review: ‘Junk’ Builds on M83’s Strengths 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Soon, percussive blasts and wailing orchestra chords lend the concerto a little “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” action. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z

From the reverbed handclaps and feedback-laced minor chord that open the first song, the music points directly to the San Francisco trinity of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Playlist: Psychedelia of Many Colors, Doo-Wop in Bluesy Shades 2011-08-06T20:30:28Z

You will never be a good guitarist if you play the same three chords over and over. Capitals succeed by ‘going through the battle’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Considering almost all of the Vaccines’ debut album consists of the same chord trick, they work wonders in creating distinct and infectious tunes brimming with more hooks than a pirate playing synth. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Despite the title, there is nothing soothing about the “Two Lullabies,” which, although slow, are punctuated by bruising cluster chords. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z

With a track like “White Christmas,” everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. Erasure’s Vince Clarke on Snow Globe Their First Christmas Album 2013-12-13T19:26:19Z

I feel like what I can do in terms of grabbing a melody out of the air, he can do with a very minor chord progression and just like, mmm, magical. Lana Del Rey on Trump, Kanye and the Right Time for a Protest Song 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Langrée has removed that chord, keeping our focus on the powerful downward march in the strings. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

He's made his own way - aiming simply to strike a chord in whatever heart is meant to receive it. Rock solid: Nile's 'Innocent Ones' strikes a chord 2011-12-16T11:01:04Z

Its gestures are relatively simple: short, repeated, slow-moving themes — most seemed to be four evenly spaced notes — are punctuated by lightly dissonant chords and explored in soft-edged, enveloping variations. Music Review: Time for Sharing the Love and the Record Labels 2011-07-20T22:28:31Z

During whole stretches of the score, the chorus sings in sonorous, block chords, delivered with an ideal blend of full-bodied sound and crisp diction. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z

The chord for light is so piercing and bright you almost want to squint. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

I knew the E chord, and ventured into E minor. How we made ... Public Image Ltd's Metal Box 2012-02-13T21:46:01Z

A repeated flourish, then a single compelling repeated chord … job done. Old music: New Radicals – You Get What You Give 2012-06-22T09:00:00Z

He uses it to navigate his own molten compositions, which may linger on a single chord for a good while without seeming to be at rest. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The decibel burn of the hammered chords at the opening of his “De Materie” is not a side product of the music; it’s essential to conveying the sheer materiality of sound. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

But the closing chord is hopeful in its open-endedness, and the way it avoids perfect harmony. 'The Playback Singer' is a satisfying comedy-drama 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The more conventional chords of By Myself brought a longer and more ambitiously devious Wheeler solo, and the excellent Parricelli fired off his best guitar break in a set that contained several striking ones. Kenny Wheeler Quintet – review 2013-01-17T17:48:37Z

It starts with a brusque, seemingly straightforward riff, only to have that riff repeatedly sideswiped by tremolo chords. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Nine of the manuscripts had no notes or chords,” Murlin says. ‘Lost’ songs from Woody Guthrie’s time in the PNW found, rolled into double album 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Dingman, the harmonic center of the band, voiced even oblique chords with a crushed-velvet touch, letting them resonate softly in the room. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z

In the driving scherzo, with its pounding chords and gnashing dissonance, played at a quicker tempo than you usually hear, Mr. Nézet-Séguin emphasized the wild, brutal elements of this vehement music. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z

"I could tell, it struck a chord," she said. WME talent agents go from A-list to ABCs in Compton mentors program 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

American companies are also hoping to strike a chord with similar products. Skin Care Products From South Korea Catch On in United States 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

There was not one bombastic moment, hard to avoid in this piece, which is at times dense with repeated chords and bursts of octaves. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

He brought ferocity to the pummeling chords of the defiant main theme of the Scherzo and offered a luminous, rich-textured account of the mystical Adagio. Music Review: Honeck Steps In for Dudamel With Philharmonic 2014-03-28T21:28:42Z

The forward-pressing rhythms of the opening, played over a howling glissando in the cello, are repeatedly interrupted with rough chords. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z

After an unexpected deluge of submissions, she realized it had struck a chord. The Future Is ... Personal Ads? 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

There’s more than a hint of Crosby’s lifelong admiration for Mitchell in “Holding On to Nothing,” with its calmly strummed, eccentric chords and asymmetrical melody. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Then something stunning happened, just for a moment: a short gesture, a softly sighing three-note melodic fragment landing on a dissonant-seeming chord that at first sounded as if it were wrong. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

Among the program's possibilities are riffs on Baroque-based chord patterns, Frisell's original music, and folk music spontaneously reshaped and arranged for the trio's instruments. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z

When the noble chords of the opening returned at the end they sounded chastened, struggling to conjure their old authority. Music Review: A Lively Jaunt With Medtner, Schubert and Chopin 2014-01-28T22:04:04Z

Just as you relax into a chord, one clarinet arrives to challenge it, and the others tend to yield. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

The Bellow letters touched a particular chord, and her reactions to them didn’t sound dissimilar from her observations about “Kids.” Hedda Gabler to Medea to Frazzled Mom 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

Mr. Frith sometimes strummed fast, harsh rhythm-guitar chords, as Mr. Cline enveloped him in noise or played splinters of lead guitar. Music Review: Fred Frith and Nels Cline Create New Soundscapes 2014-01-19T22:12:56Z

The music — with its hushed long chords, shiftingly gentle harmonies and prolonged expressive tension — is one of the compositions in which we are most aware of his addressing the sublime. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z

Cued by Mr. Chiu’s subtle nods and sharp inhalations, the musicians worked through Webernesque squiggles, grainy chords, fidgety arpeggios and the odd fortissimo outburst with an unflappable poise, seemingly oblivious to the outside world’s intrusions. Music Review: Flux Quartet Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic 2010-06-06T21:20:00Z

Schumann's concerto opens with an orchestral salvo — a single, punched chord — which acts like a bolt of electricity to shock the piano into action. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“When Bad Does Good,” written and produced by Cornell, is a hymn and an argument, begun by sustained organ chords and building to a rock chorale. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The conviction of that statement struck a chord. Perspective | ‘The Room’ is the worst movie ever made, but I’ve seen it a hundred times — without irony 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Notice the chords in her right hand that begin and end with little tremolos, perfectly calibrated to make the decaying piano tones do something they should not — shake, flutter, growl. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

“I had been following Bradley’s story, and when I read that he had been brought up here, it really struck a chord,” said Mr. Price, who is from Aberdare, a small town outside Cardiff. ‘Radicalisation of Bradley Manning’ Hits Home in Edinburgh 2013-08-04T21:20:18Z

For the repeat, I played the chords, the sixth and the third, under the main voice. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Still delivering a fusillade of guitar figures and power chords with the best of his generation, his gift for self-effacing, even excoriating lyrics is on full display. The Who knows you're gonna hate this song: Still defiant on new studio album "Who" 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Focusing on slow-rolling piano chords and a chopped refrain of Diana Ross singing the word "heaven," his arrangement accentuates an echoing tambourine. Friday Favorites: Barrius and Cedaa, BeanOne, Imneye 2010-12-03T19:56:00Z

He swiveled, wielding the guitar like a weapon, emitting a low, moaning chord that reverberated around the arena. Concert review: Van Halen at the United Center 2012-02-25T07:25:00Z

“Even if life treats me this way/I will be strong for you alone,” she sings over steadfast piano chords. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Return of Xander Cage struck a chord with its target audience as well, scoring an A- from polled moviegoers, according to CinemaScore. 'Split' Stuns With a $40.2 Million Opening Weekend 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

She outlined a chord, then shifted it up, then trailed it into the air. Review: Jazzmeia Horn, a Jazz Vocalist on the Rise, Steps Up to the Microphone at Dizzy’s 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Barb’s personality that struck a chord. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Ellington’s opening piano figure tiptoes around the chords it implies; Coltrane’s saxophone wafts in as if the melody is nearly too exquisite to disturb. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

I think it did strike a chord because I went to Comic-Con in July, and I think I saw more people dressed up as Sadness than any other character. Sadness From Inside Out Will Be 2015's Hit Halloween Costume 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

And some of the lyrics in Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" album clearly struck a chord with the crowd. Springsteen lashes out at bankers in Berlin show 2012-05-31T00:44:52Z

“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston, who also attended the performance, described the show as “a masterpiece,” adding that it was “striking a chord with the younger generations and that’s what we need in the theater.” 'Hamilton' takes center stage in London's West End 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The standout soloist was Mr. Miller, carving through chord substitutions with wit and soul. Music Review: Pee Wee Ellis All Star Band Plays at Iridium 2010-04-23T22:43:00Z

“The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords,” Mr. Tommasini wrote, “though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Over a simple chord progression, he picked out notes on the guitar fluently and with a clear sense of direction, always landing on a chord note at the end of a phrase. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z

Mr. Cuomo chops up and repeats words and phrases to create a vocal part around which the orchestra plays fractured marches, bursting chords and spans of astringent harmonies. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z

The complications — and there are plenty of them — are in the music: stop-start meter changes, peculiar chords, gnarled counterpoint, all packed into two playful minutes. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Softly Draining Seas features clicks and cuts, piano chords designed to gently crush, and a hint of the divine. New band of the day: Jamie Isaac (No 1,526) 2013-06-05T14:53:03Z

He’s not about virtuosity as a guitar slinger so much as intensity, with a heavy attack that weds blues chords to metal distortion. Album review: Gary Clark Jr., 'Blak and Blu' 2012-10-22T17:36:00Z

We'll each come up with ideas for chord progressions, but Rupert is more dominant musically, I do most of the lyrics and we do the topline together. It takes two: musical duos talk about working together 2013-04-11T18:00:00Z

The electronics, churning underneath the strings, were more prominent and more disruptive; the strings dug into each dissonant tremolo chord; giant videos depicted harsh landscapes and voracious insects. Review: Governors Ball Is Ruled by Women 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

It's not easy to connect with so many people with a melody, a chord progression. Purity Ring bridges indie cool and mainstream pop 2013-08-29T13:19:00Z

The strings hang on an unusual chord, creating texture and suspense. Audio advent calendar: Anna Calvi playlist 2010-12-10T15:55:00Z

As the opening chords rang out, a troupe of transgender and cross-dressing dancers joined the band onstage. Arcade Fire warm Glastonbury crowd 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

I just scribbled away and eventually a C major chord was there.' A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

Here it created space for Mr. Harris to deploy some oddly gleaming chord voicings and for Mr. Okegwo to abandon rote walking bass lines in favor of roving pointillism. Music Review: Honoring a Jazz Pianist and Mentor (Without Using a Single Jazz Piano) 2010-10-11T21:54:00Z

But when tenderness is called for, a simple melody on a consoling oboe or a wash of chords, like out-of-focus Debussy, is subtly heard. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

But the image of a woman being harmed while engaged in an athletic pursuit, harmed while moving her body freely, ostensibly making herself stronger, strikes a particular chord. I’m not running scared: On Mollie Tibbetts and rejecting the fear of jogging alone 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

But the busy passage work in the violin and the leaping, dancing chords in this movement require the unstrained vitality and lightness that Ms. Widmann and Mr. Lonquich supply. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z

You began to long for some crunching chords or a really emphatic melody. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

As it cycles through a few descending piano chords over a hip-hop backbeat, Parks sings about someone named Mary who’s joyless, isolated and deeply depressed. Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The comedian stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal chords at an outpatient clinic last Thursday. Joan Rivers dies surrounded by family 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Even with its deliberate, contemplative spirit the movie struck a chord when it opened in France last year, selling more than three million tickets. Film: Worldly Actor Finds Method in a Monastery 2011-02-20T02:01:25Z

In Gabrieli’s “Mass” the perfectly voiced brass chords sometimes sounded as if played by an organ. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z

And everybody knows Woody Guthrie couldn't play but three chords. Age no obstacle for vintage Iggy & the Stooges 2013-05-07T16:35:08Z

Other parts of the vocal array are the tenors, hitting the high notes; the bass voices, anchoring the low notes; and baritones, singing notes that complete the chords, usually below the lead. Seattle group belts out tunes, with decades under its belt 2013-06-29T03:40:26Z

Like many of Mr. Glass’s works, this excerpt was built of streams of arpeggios and repeated major and minor chords. Music Review: Early Birthday Party for Philip Glass at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-01-30T23:10:35Z

Although he deployed a looping device to give himself rhythm guitar chords for one jazzy piece, he relied primarily on what his fingers could do in real time. Sir Richard Bishop Offers Solos at the Issue Project Room 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Isolated at home — and sometimes distancing even from each other because of Watt’s illness — they began trading small musical ideas: chords, lyrics, sounds. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Her voicings tended to suggest a troubled serenity, with chords full of close intervals for the horn-and-reeds brigade. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z

It wasn’t just Barb’s personality that struck a chord with fans. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Before the first word is sung, he establishes a feeling of unease and plaint with stark, acidic brass chords, caressed and dragged down simultaneously by dusky descending strings. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z

Early songs such as Catch a Wave, Surfer Girl or In My Room possess an extra, unexpected chord or harmonic trick that other writers were simply incapable of locating. The Beach Boys – review 2012-09-30T16:00:01Z

Although Watts’s passagework may be more effortful than in the past, the glories of his sound were still there: the muscular chords, the gleaming tone, and the ability to spin out an ever-so-delicate phrase. Review | André Watts is star attraction at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

The opening theme, which unfolds in a series of obsessively repeated soft chords, was like a shimmer of harmonies. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z

The performance was a 45-minute celebration of classic R&B chord progressions and righteous electric guitar leads, filtered through a cracked, "loser" perspective that was actually confident in a reverse-swagger way. Catching up with Dude York at Columbia City Theater 10/14 2011-10-15T22:31:04Z

They probably defy rational explanation, better understood via a clipped electric guitar chord or the fold of a shirt-collar than any text. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z

“Among Red Mountains” is another of his works of geology as sound, a massif petrified in pounding, fortissimo cluster chords that move in stratified harmonic rhythms. Review: Lisa Moore at DiMenna Center 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The track uses only two synthesized chords and a slow pulse, but the vocal is pained, aching and constantly escalating the drama: a desperate human voice trying to escape an electronic grid. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Among the bits and pieces were his “Green Kalahari,” proceeding with so much detail between chords that it was difficult to recognize; locomotive, riff-based Ellington-isms; tremolo chords, rocking back and forth; blocks of decaying sound. Abdullah Ibrahim at the Schomburg Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

He made everything matter in its own way — wide and resounding chords, single notes, infinitesimal accompaniment to other solos in the septet arrangements. Abdullah Ibrahim at the Schomburg Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

But Super Rich Kids, with its monotonous piano chord verses overlaid by a droning rap from Earl Sweatshirt, precisely projects the emptiness of a life stuffed with money but wanting for 'real love'. Great Gatsby and Channel Orange – the perfect soundtrack 2013-05-30T03:11:38Z

Acoustic guitar chords grow into a programmed beat and strings; her voice is gentle, but its edge is unmistakable. Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

“I’m a Mess” is another highlight, with Sheeran reaching deep and shredding his voice while soaring over luminous guitar chords. REVIEW: Ed Sheeran Multiplies His Appeal on x 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The poems, set in an idealised English countryside and imbued with a yearning melancholy, struck a chord not just in England but in America. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Bring your guitar to his Acoustic Army show, pick up the lyric and chord sheets to notable Covert songs and off you go. Celebrating Tax Day 2011-04-15T17:28:00Z

They go through the whole movement, those trills, then the cluster chords with sforzandos, then you have a pianissimo progression. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

In her description Tower leaves the larger thematic resonances to listeners’ perceptions and focuses on the materials — steady repeated notes, chords, runs in scales and such — that drive the music. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

She places her bulky headphones over his ears, waiting expectantly for his reaction as he listens to the first chords of the Shins' "New Slang." Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The 15-minute piece teems with asymmetrical rhythmic figures, spiraling thematic lines, steady pounding chords and cyclic repetitions of scale patterns. Review: At Summergarden, a Steamy Evening of Exploratory Sounds 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

A chorus of “oohs” and “ahs” in jazzy chords, circling without resolution, accompanies the Chicago rapper Noname as she calmly zooms down her latest stream of consciousness. The Playlist: D’Angelo’s Cowboy Soul, and 9 More New Songs 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Shaw’s ode unspools as a fluid landscape of gently insistent chord progressions and subtly developing airs, with a deceptive quietness, for the piece soon darkens and grows increasingly rich. In a Ballet Across America world premiere, even the piano dances 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Glasper meshed its groove with Minimalist repetition of percussive chords and arpeggios and a suggestion of “A Love Supreme” — a more benign Western intervention. Seun Kuti at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The sequence ended as it had to, with a blaze of flash powder and a puff of smoke timed to the final chord. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

The guitarist put a toy gun to his head and pulled the trigger before turning to dreamily echoing chords. Music Review: The Knights Echo John Cage’s Happenings at the Stone 2012-06-05T21:28:02Z

That means speed, first of all: breakneck lines cleanly articulated over brisk rhythm chords, with the two men switching intuitively between lead and rhythm roles. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z

Of course it’s easy to just hear the sounds because they’re so loud, but there’s a lot of chords and melodies underneath. Zedd on EDM Acceptance: 'People Realize It's Musicians Making Music' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

But in a drifting performance that essentially turned into one long improvised melodic paraphrase of the original songs, half of those chord changes were substituted or erased. Music Review: Veterans With Quartets, Stretching Out in Sound 2011-02-27T23:05:32Z

The music of “Prayer Song” hovers with electric-piano chords and wordless backup voices; the lyrics are a kaleidoscopic, free-associative vision of Los Angeles, touching on lust, violence, gentrification, plastic surgery, masculinity, conspicuous consumption and religion. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s an original composition based on familiar chord changes — for a songbook standard, “How Deep Is the Ocean?” Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

It's a gentle, meandering ballad with a lustrous, almost jazzy chord progression that so impressed Burt Bacharach he flew her to California just to hear her sing. New band of the day ? No 830: Rumer 2010-07-21T16:19:00Z

The third movement opens with held chords in the strings, a richness with its base in Ms. Robinson’s cello. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Plays Arvo Pärt 2012-11-19T22:51:43Z

Wednesday’s set featured an extended stretch of tense, fascinating electronica: darkly hovering tones and chords, evolving from dissonance to dissonance. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z

“It was really simple, three or four chords.” Lumineers specialize in audience participation 2012-04-12T16:09:00Z

The feminist T-shirt seemed to strike a chord in at a politically charged time. Karlie Kloss, Ruth Bell and Rebecca Hall Celebrate Dior at Saks Fifth Avenue 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

But the details were much more complex, with 6/4 time and dense chords. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Melodies are elusive, taking sharp turns just when you think you’ve found their path, or evaporating into a mirage of hovering chords. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

“What struck me was the happiness I felt in encountering gospel or church music I would then find that same feeling inside a Mendelssohn piece or a chord structure in Beethoven,” Tines said. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The work’s title is appropriate in the sense that each of its movements is built on a steady underlying pitch or chord. Music Review: ?Sudden Music? at a Festival for Composers 2010-06-17T22:19:00Z

There are stretches of hazy, wayward chords spiked with unnerving clusters. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Their assignation at the hotel later strikes a familiar chord, only this time Bill doesn’t undress, but orders her to do so. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Seeking Safe Harbor 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The Village is similarly, blissfully innocent, introducing a moment when a "new life turns towards you", before bubbling over with simple, major chords. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order 2011-08-08T13:38:25Z

It uses only her tearful voice over steady piano chords that are already drifting away in a haze of reverb. The Playlist: Missy Elliott Reappears With a Boast, and Wire Returns With a Blast 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hough handled the chords with strength and delicacy, as if gently moving the cellos aside. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Stephen Hough and Andrew Manze 2012-08-22T21:35:17Z

It begins with Bulgarian-style vocal harmonies and moves to four mournful piano chords as Stromae considers how “It’s crazy how many people have thought the same.” FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

That's three words, two basic chords, and the promise of a whole new world of music and lyrics to come. Fiction in a flash 2012-10-08T15:17:42Z

Mr. Hampton’s reimagined ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” as a pained and beautiful meditation with a lot of extra chords inside it. Critic?s Notebook: Houston?s Jazz Stars, Celebrated in TriBeCa 2011-01-16T22:59:55Z

The spartan demo uses America’s guitar chords as Jackson sings about finding a mysterious utopia but regretfully leaving it behind to return to his family. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

Circling through two or three chords, using sparse arrangements and a fast-strummed, slightly distorted vintage guitar, the songs gathered a nervous energy, compulsively telling all. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z

Just how many original riffs using E Pentatonic Power chords & Riffs can there possibly be to slam? ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

This month, we focus on Ornette Coleman, the iconoclastic saxophonist and bandleader whose style prioritized atonal chords over traditional rhythm and harmony, which helped establish the subgenre of free jazz in the late 1950s. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Shabby Doll,” a tale of back-and-forth humiliation, lost its old rock sneer for gnarled chords and hints of jazz syncopation, turning it into something more complex and compassionate. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Harmony is made of not people parroting or repeating each other’s notes, but the opposite: The blend of very different notes creates the chord. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Howard said that he didn’t think that the movie struck a chord with Hollywood Foreign Press Association members, who choose the Golden Globes, because they are more likely to be Formula One fans. Carpetbagger: Ron Howard on His Nerve-Wracking Season 2013-12-12T17:03:48Z

“We didn’t know that she had actually written a full song with chords and everything until pretty far along in the process.” The many mysteries of folk singer Karen Dalton, revealed 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Eat of me, baby, skin to the bone/Body on body until I’m all gone,” she sings, over strummed, echoey guitar chords and a wavery keyboard, serenely offering to sacrifice herself for love. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the “Clemenza” overture the forcefulness of the opening chords set the tone, though the connecting passages showed the orchestra’s strings to be just as convincing when the music is graceful and light. Music Review: Ax and Blythe Open Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center 2010-07-28T21:34:00Z

Not so on Thursday: After the start, with Zhang alone building tension through a slow succession of chords in crescendo, he was a constant presence. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

On “Contemplation,” another of his own songs, Mr. Vega creates a drift of darkly irresolute chords on a Fender Rhodes alongside the guitarist Anthony Wilson. Playlist: New Music by Rumer, Donald Vega, Keith Jarrett and Corb Lund 2012-08-10T13:59:29Z

Its rival is Melodyne, the mind-blowing next generation tool, which claims to be able to manipulate individual notes within played chords – something previously believed to be impossible. Hey, what's that sound: Auto-Tune 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z

The ensemble delivered many of the elements you might expect from a consort of electric guitars, like growling chords, squealing feedback and flamboyant riffs, alongside the rhythmic discipline honed in more conventional contemporary classical music. Review: Dither Delivers an Electric-Guitar Master Class 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

The cluster chords, colorful textural effects and outbursts of the striking third movement were vividly rendered here. American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

While the Birthday Boys keep deftly subverting expectations, Murderfist just keeps playing its few chords, faster and more intensely. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z

The recurring figure in Mr. Harvey’s chaconne is a series of four delicate chords, hazy and elusive sonorities with shimmering sustained tones, oscillating inner voices and rippling figures on the piano. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z

The music offered maximum contrasts, with clusters of wide-spaced discordant chords, notes plucked and stroked on the piano strings, and drastic use of pedals. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z

Songs like “Stupid Girl” used pop structures as they seesawed between electronics and power chords, while Ms. Manson exulted in goth-girl depressiveness or vengeful bluntness. Music Review: Shirley Manson Leads Garbage at Webster Hall 2012-05-23T21:58:49Z

Under cross-examination, he interrupted Patrick R. Frank, a lawyer for the plaintiffs who questioned Sheeran’s testimony about the chords he played, challenging him, “Do you believe this?” 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The music is slow, portentous and sometimes very striking indeed, especially when it builds into a kind of crippled funeral march, with thudding bass drums, tolling gongs and insistent synthesiser chords. London Contemporary Orchestra – review 2013-05-27T16:39:04Z

He mixes chords and crossing patterns and two-handed unison lines, all at a rapid clip. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Like the momentary lifting of a pianist’s fingers while a chord still resonates, the classic novelistic chapter evokes time by dwelling in a pause rather than a strong ending. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

His voice is backed by light bass plucks, piano chords in the key of C and the crinkle of thousands of tiny plastic wrappers being peeled back. In the age of megachurches, communion has become a big business 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

It is full of familiar Birtwistle devices – dysfunctional ostinatos, shuddering chords, wiry knots of lyricism – on which the oboe etches its own melodic profile, and sometimes gets ensnared by the strings' manic clockworks. Nash Ensemble/Friend | Classical review 2010-03-26T23:00:00Z

Later, he plays a few chords while I watch his hands. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

This structure, ending with the dramatic power chord, Dr. Moorer said was inspired by Bach’s “Fugue in B Minor” and also by the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” As THX Gets a New Trailer, an Interview With Its Composer 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. DeFrancesco is a deeply authoritative musician, a master of rhythmic pocket, and of the custom of stomping bass lines beneath chords and riffs. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z

I loved that in the grave, slow introduction to the first movement, each phrase began with a steely chord that lingered, then trailed off into a sighing harmonized melodic turn. A Critic’s Ode to a Childhood Joy in Classical Music 2013-07-17T16:12:32Z

“One person gets one piece,” he said, “and then it strikes a chord in someone else.” Veteran Post Hunt champions take the prize once again

In the concluding section, titled “she comes undone,” Ms. Kaplan, just in concert wear and seated at the piano, played oscillating chords and plunked notes and aimless-sounding fragments. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Two in particular deliver on the promise of the title, illuminating the strange way that borrowed words and chords can tap into reservoirs of otherwise inaccessible feeling. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z

“I started with single notes, playing the bass, and from there I was able to work out some chords,” she said. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Luke knew three or four chords, not well, then,” Church said in an interview. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Once I had the names of the chords and the notes down, I started being able to break it down and understand what was going to work,” he said. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Cold War” has struck a chord around the world. A star-making role for Joanna Kulig in ‘Cold War’ 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

It doesn't help that the musical backing is so insipid: wisps of gentle guitar that too rarely surprise, as with the skewed chords of Wisely & Slow or the icy glint of Tongue Behind My Teeth. The Staves: Dead & Born & Grown – review 2012-11-15T21:45:01Z

Why do you think the book—and its idiosyncratic main character—hit such a chord with readers? Elizabeth Strout on Returning to Olive Kitteridge 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Now it seems that the specificity of your attack on the guitar — whether and how you strum a chord or pick a note — determines the texture of the orchestral sounds that result from it. Music Review: Pat Metheny Brings His One-Man Band to Town Hall 2010-05-23T21:29:00Z

What really struck a chord, alongside the requisite show pieces, was the softness of the collection. | Alexander McQueen Wins! 2010-10-06T22:05:00Z

She would say, “No, but I want this chord!” Zedd on EDM Acceptance: 'People Realize It's Musicians Making Music' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The concluding unresolved dissonant splat of a chord seemed as sensible a way to end the piece as any. Review: A Brash Wunderkind, Now 37, Meets an August Ensemble 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

“The Mother Lode” is both upbeat and unsettled; over repeating chords and a crumpled version of a house beat, he sings about being a clown who amuses no one. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

His father, a truck driver and pipe fitter, bought George his first guitar when he was 9, and with help from a Sunday school teacher he taught himself to play melodies and chords. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z

As he sings about reality versus consoling illusion, the music trudges through Beatles-like chords with an undertow of simulated, sustained strings, building to a chorus with sighing harmonies. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the piece, he waits a little bit less than Monk would have between chords, erasing the potato-sack thwack of syncopation that typically defines the tune. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

“The writing is challenging from a number of perspectives: There are leaps, there are rapid virtuosic passages, there are chord voicings that change very rapidly.” Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

He writes these chords that are just beautiful — the way they come together so simply, yet they go against normal forms that you learn as a musician. Texas Monthly: Norah Jones Lists Her Favorite Music 2012-01-01T01:20:07Z

And then Mark began playing with chords and arrangements. Lin-Manuel Miranda on Being an Artist in the Age of Trump 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In the finale, Ax flaunted his powerhouse pianism in playful passages where his chords rang like bells and his whispery arpeggios traced a filigree pattern against the night sky. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

A few notes, a series of chords that unfold and overlap, become momentous events. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Why this strikes a particular chord is that last year, the copyrightable nature of Klingon actually became a subject in a closely watched dispute between Oracle and Google. Studio Claims Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Film Infringes Klingon Copyright 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

With tolling bells, grim chords and an uneasy melody, the opening immediately brings to mind Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” another tale of a king gone mad. Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The opening woodwind chords were imperfectly tuned and the string color in the second part was a bit antiseptic. National Festival Orchestra well drilled in penultimate concert 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

From his hands came a slow, elegant tidewater of chords, unresolved and Impressionistic. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

A classic example is the beginning of the beautiful Barcarolle: a deep bass note, followed by a high chord. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her vocal chords seemed to pierce souls with raw, sometimes uncontrolled, sound. Review: Over-the-top beauty begs for more bite 2012-12-06T20:59:13Z

As an ominous, pink neon countdown hit zero, Gaga stormed the stage promptly at 8:55 p.m. to the crunchy chords of “Diamond Heart.” Lady Gaga treats fans to expansive, smart hit-filled set 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

David Winkler evoked the Romantic era with the big chords and rhapsodic musings of his appealing “Venti,” which received its premiere here. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z

With the percussive noisemakers wailing, massive brash chords and seductive summoning calls in the winds and general untamed brashness, "Amériques" got a thrilling performance. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vee played saxophone in his high school band, but with savings from his newspaper route he bought a $30 Harmony guitar after his brother Bill taught him a few chords. Bobby Vee, Pop Idol Known for ‘Take Good Care of My Baby,’ Dies at 73 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by a guitarist who plays passages instead of chords, the Vancouver artist twirls knobs and presses keys while muttering filtered words into a microphone. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

The drive-in has struck a chord with Americans who have been largely confined to their homes since March watching the death toll from COVID-19 accumulate on their TV screens. The drive-in movie stages a comeback in U.S. in coronavirus era 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

I found that by combining fingerpicking with these freaky chords, it was opening my mind to melodies and different rhythms and syllables. Staying true to Lianne La Havas 2013-03-28T19:35:00Z

With so few moving parts, all of them mattered a great deal, and the odd wrong chord and attendant pause lent parts of the show an air of tentativeness. Concert review: Perfume Genius at the Croc 09/22/10 2010-09-23T17:55:00Z

And nearly half of them added on a coda, the drums rumbling and the piano simmering in a single chord, while Ms. Franklin improvised words and shouts, gospel-style. Music Review: Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall, Friday, February 17 2012-02-18T07:56:13Z

There were both weak and strong players among the winds, and in massed chords, it only takes one player to ruin things. Mexican orchestra, deservedly obscure, shows too many holes 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The piece could have stopped on one of his arresting, conclusive sounding chords to greater effect. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

There are only three chords in music, period. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

The finale went like a rocket, propelling Trpceski to his feet after the final chords. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z

But it was his apparent initial enthusiasm to create something that women hadn’t long already been doing that struck a concerning chord. The New Yorker busts Bustle 2013-09-16T17:27:00Z

This is a chord, this another, this is a third. Art Review: ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture,’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2013-05-09T20:07:09Z

But in 2004, her vocal chords were damaged by Lyme disease, which also afflicts people with lethargy and joint pains. Shania Twain bounces back with "Now" 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Feldman’s slow-moving, whisper-soft chords; ambient surfaces; and eerie harmonies can certainly be rewarding in the much smaller doses of his shorter pieces. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z

You mean that particular form of song, with the repeater coda for the chorus and that classic R&B chord progression? Interview: Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner explains "Yulia" from "Expo 86" 2010-07-20T01:31:00Z

As the piece progressed, I especially liked the way melodic lines were played in block chords of thick, fuzzy, wonderfully diffuse sonorities. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z

Built from two slowly tolling piano chords and countless reverberating, wordless voices, Sarah Davachi’s “Evensong” isn’t exactly ambient music. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The score careers crazily, rapid chromaticisms forcing the music asunder while the trombones bulldoze through with plunging chords, all a prelude to the hero's climactic cry of "victory!" Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z

Intonation sagged in unaccompanied choral sections, and there were discrepancies in sustained high woodwind chords and in the agreement of cellos and double basses­ on the bass line. Review | National Philharmonic soloists boost an otherwise delayed, derivative event 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

They share nearly identical chord progressions and similar bass lines. When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

For Coleman, Cherry was part foil and part fraternal twin: A harmonically minded improviser in a group that had left chord structures behind, the trumpeter alternated serenely between hurried-up phrases and long, patient tones. A Fresh Look at the ‘Organic Music’ of Moki and Don Cherry 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Doctors told Wells they could save her by removing her vocal chords, an option she rejected. | Mary Wells 2010-11-23T17:57:00Z

Plush ripped into their opening number, “Athena,” pounding away at power chords and sending vocals soaring into the rafters. Rock’s saviors? Ladies of Plush rock harder than most anyone 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Imagine a series of these chords up and down the keyboard, in such an unnatural position. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Then the play proper starts, in thick darkness, with the repeated crash of guitar chords and a blitz of bright lights that define the proscenium frame, an effect repeated between the succeeding scenes. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

I remember how Bernstein’s whole body shook every time he cued one of the slashing chords that irregularly pummel this obsessive dance. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Wagner’s “Tristan” chord is only four notes as well, although it resolves to another chord of four notes. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

So through that long, famous summer, we laboured through The Entertainer, each bodged and fumbled chord turning Scott Joplin's lilting, whimsical rag into a lolloping, peg-legged dirge, music from a speakeasy in hell. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z

The setup reveals a deep merging of forms: As Ms. Reagon’s music envelops the dancing, the dancing seeps through to the last chord and sometimes even beyond it. Review: Dorrance Dance and Toshi Reagon’s ‘The Blues Project’ at the Joyce Theater 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

The actor's analogy struck a painful chord in India, where sexual violence against women is rampant but was largely unmentioned until just a few years ago. Bollywood's Salman Khan causes uproar with rape remark 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The piano part, mostly shifting chords with active inner voices, cushions the searching violin but loses patience and starts prodding the music with leaping octaves and gnarly bursts. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Although that might sound like something pertaining to guitar chords or education, it’s fitness terminology for how to safely and yet effectively increase your exercise load to see gains in strength and endurance. Starting up or heading back to a fitness routine? Here are tips to prevent overdoing it. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The students are told how the technique demands the quick switching of the vocal chords from a shrill falsetto "head" voice to a gravelly "chest" voice. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z

Mr. Riggins’s snare and bass drums kick up dust on the offbeats, and Mr. Glasper — first on bubbling electric keyboard, then on acoustic piano — refuses to let his levitating gospel chords touch the ground. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Their exchange of pleasantries, with repeated expressions of “enchanted,” becomes a complex ensemble in which sustained vocal lines mingle in clashing harmonies over lurching, jerky orchestra chords. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

An alarm on a reversing lorry outside this studio took the chord pattern of hazy new track, Sun Harmonics, down a completely new route. Jon Hopkins: the next Brian Eno 2013-06-04T15:52:15Z

The music revisits some of her favorite devices: a slowly pulsing beat, a skulking bass line, a vaudeville bounce to the chords, a switch between whispery singing and deadpan rapping with a dismissive chuckle. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

For all its shining choruses and bright, perky chords, this Welsh quintet's second album is a murky thing, digging into the human heart to find disappointment, frustration and boredom. Race Horses: Furniture – review 2012-11-29T21:00:01Z

“Those were first passes at chord progressions you’ve been playing your whole teenage life.” Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

During this time, Priester made a name for himself as one of the few trombonists who could keep up with Roach’s fast drumming while blowing over rapid chord changes with style. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

There is a moment of silence, and then the organ hits you, right in the solar plexus, with a chord of Gothic proportions. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to move away from the richness of harmony — from using as many notes as I wanted, as many chord changes,” she said. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

When the oboe turns elegiac, the strings play strummed chords, like a quasi-atonal guitar accompaniment. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

The music, by Matthew Otto, was little more than cushiony synthesizer chords with an occasional beat for emphasis — effectively a blank canvas for Mr. Welsh to scrawl onto. Music Review: The Julie Ruin, Body/Head and Majical Cloudz Play Northside 2013-06-14T21:48:15Z

Besides its feminine allure, jewelry struck a more personal chord for Kahlo. Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the subdued orchestra overlapping patterns of ascending minor scales create a hypnotic, quietly intense backdrop, pierced by fractured, brassy chords like some cosmic chorale. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

The six-part comedy debuting March 15 is based on Lindy West’s memoir, “Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman,” which Bryant said struck a chord with her. Resistance is key as ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ returns for season 3 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Guardian Alien Or you can make a whole album of one song, in one chord. Playlist : New CDs: Josh Berman, Guardian Alien, Rodrigo Campos 2012-08-17T19:49:57Z

Those distorted guitar chords went on to rearrange the sonic architecture of the 1960s – but frontman Ray Davies's lyrics also heralded something new and profound. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z

Her victory 11 months ago struck a national chord. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z

“After I learned the chords, he began going over the lyrics, and I was told to remember the verses that were not in the printed version.” “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Through notation and conducting he stirs the flow of music in several directions at once, forming stimulating dissonance and contrapuntal shapes between tidal currents of chords. Music Review: Surprises From Someone Fans Thought They Knew 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z

As for why none of this season’s shows struck a chord with audiences, even the experts seem a little puzzled. The Texas Tribune: A Great TV Series Set in Texas? Sorry, You?re Canceled 2011-01-23T05:15:08Z

All of those reasons, while valid, don’t explain why this Broadway musical — a form that I appreciate but had never truly responded to — strikes a chord within me that I can’t quite silence. The emotional hooks of 'Hamilton': Why the soundtrack makes me cry every single time 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Speaking of commitment: Aaron, when Trevor keeps shouting "NO!" at the reveal of the Sewer Boys, how in the world did you do that without shredding your vocal chords? Meet the breakout stars of "Dicks: The Musical" (all four of them) 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Last summer's limited run "Return" really struck a chord with my imagination. Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and Netflix Lead the Way 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

And in fact, while some of the political messaging struck a slightly gauche chord, it was captivating, and the results – particularly the climax, when they conjured a Gauguin image – memorable. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z

For a woman who was a teenager when she finally met her biological father, the phrase struck a deep chord. Sheila Michaels, champion of “Ms.,” changed the world with “two consonants and a period” 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Dressed in baggy white pants and a billowing button-down shirt, Cox alternated between singing, sneering, smashing chords on his guitar and playing the bass. Review | Deerhunter brings its earsplitting sonic tingle to odd and wonderful 9:30 Club show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

What mattered was detail and continuity: the timbre and articulation of each note, the presence or absence of chords, the shape and suspense of each phrase, the storytelling dynamics of every stretch of music. Sir Richard Bishop Offers Solos at the Issue Project Room 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Minnesotans’ spacious, slow-burning sound — ringing chords, pronounced drum hits, haunting harmonies — rewards those who listen closely, its minimalism summoning deep emotions. Sub Pop’s Low aims high with ‘The Invisible Way’ 2013-03-18T22:55:08Z

In his own solo Mr. Hersch worked up to a declaratory heat, and then let his forces ebb, tolling a single chord and a sparse bass line as the setup for a drum solo. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

Ms. Wang, hammering ostinato chords with immense force that belied her small frame, didn’t have the look of a soloist with accompaniment, but of a percussionist among others in an ensemble. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

While it can be hard to respect yet another dance that takes inspiration from Bob Fosse, the choreographer whose stylized movement strikes a powerful chord with so many — certainly Beyoncé — the Wednesday is different. The Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation. Be Weird. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Queen's Ballad shows how well Shipp maintains the integrity of a song while finding ever-changing new melodies in it, and hitting chords that fizz with compatible dissonances. Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio: Floating Ice – review 2012-12-13T22:06:01Z

It ends with a demonic finale, full of pummeling chords and frenetic energy. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Your vocal chords are about the size of a dime. Anne Hathaway on Les Miz, Singing Live and the Power of Hugh Jackman 2012-12-06T13:00:37Z

“Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony,” from 1979, knitted together isolated chords, arpeggios and rhythmic components from Beethoven’s nine symphonies into a single grand tribute. Pierre Henry, Composer Who Found the Music in Sounds, Dies at 89 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

He learned a few guitar chords while attending the North Carolina Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, and his father helped him buy a Stella guitar for $12. Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 2012-05-30T00:37:08Z

Love has to pull his narrators out of deeper holes this time, reflected in minor chords and mournful realizations. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

Projected on five circular reflectors hanging overhead, violet light saturated the stage during the work’s low, rumbling opening chords. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:25Z

The lawsuit against Sheeran involves only the underlying musical composition of the two songs — their melodies, chords and lyrics — and not the specific recordings. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Shirtless, tattooed, dirty looking, he stood straight up, sneakers together, his guitar neck at 2 o’clock, pumping his chords at a strange angle across the strings, wincing or looking terrified between croupy roars. | High on Fire: High on Fire, Metal Trio, Blasting the Blender 2010-04-11T22:11:00Z

His left hand did little but was used occasionally to point and to cut chords off. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

Her art strikes a very deep chord with me, and I think it does in most people that have seen it. For Karla Knight, Paranormal Is Normal 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

His history in rock and dance songwriting is evident in his scores, which often take an intriguing chord pattern — a groove — and repetitively explore it, teasing out new colors and developments. 'Moon' and 'Fountain' composer Clint Mansell will perform soundtrack pieces at Theatre at Ace Hotel 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Boys Noize — so austere that their video display used only red, black and white — dispensed buzzing, distorted riffs over dry drumbeats, as the chords that topped them jabbed with happy aggression. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z

But pretty soon, Joan reclaims the strength of her supporting power chords. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

This might happen best in “Slow,” which starts with tolling piano chords, like a dirge, until Mr. Richardson unspools his complex, circular melody in tandem with Mr. Metheny and Mr. Waits. Review: Logan Richardson’s ‘Shift’ Serves as a Challenge 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Taurus’s 1968 song “Spirit” includes an acoustic passage with an arpeggiated chord progression and a descending chromatic bass line that resembles the pastoral introduction to “Stairway.” Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

“He is a fantastic musician. We only need to bring up a song and he immediately knows all the chords and he is on his way,” said one of the group members, Richard Glockemann. Syrian refugee's guitar opens doors to new life in Belgium 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“They are indelibly linked to what the city is in the popular imagination, and when we did this project we really struck a chord,” Chen says. Hong Kong’s fight to save its neon shimmer – a photo essay 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The music unfolds in charged, fitful stretches: clashing chords, orchestra blasts, riffs that start up and get stuck in place. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

The record closed with a showcase for James' most idiosyncratic talent: a stark, piano-based composition that only needed a few quietly-shifting chords to leave "Syro" with an air of melancholy and depth. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her father worked in marketing and promotion for radio stations, including WBLS, and for the label Select Records, so she heard plenty of hip-hop and R&B and learned some guitar chords. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

He rarely plays in full chords, preferring to trace out little houndstooth patters or to use curt, two- and three-note harmonies. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The piece has barely begun before he stops to listen to the beauty of the chord he’s just written. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Lloyd's words struck a chord and called into question how to navigate talking about women's sports, which is fraught with so much meaning politically. Why Donald Trump and the right can't leave women's soccer alone 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think the resonance of those words and what they refer to in the Christian tradition would really come across as strongly without that harmonization, without that chord,” he added. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The galumphing opening chords marked the first time Broadway audiences heard Sondheim’s music as well as lyrics. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Through various episodes the music erupts with aborted melodic turns, piercing chords and wailing lines that thread through the overall busyness. Music Review: JACK Quartet in Pop Up! Concert at Miller Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:09Z

I knew a lot of chords and how to read music and how jazz was constructed and how to improvise. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The case involved only the compositions underlying both tracks — the lyrics, melodies and chords that can be notated on paper — and not their recordings. Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

He recalled conducting Mr. Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 5, which opens with a series of chords in radiant C major. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Over delicate chords, Mvula sings softly: "She cried: 'Maybe it's too late?'" New music: Laura Mvula – Like the Morning Dew 2012-11-09T10:36:00Z

In the opening chords, the cellos brushed their bows — held at each end — vertically along the strings; on the harp, gentle movements of the back of the hand created milky glissandos. Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

A number of newcomers are breaking uncharted creative ground, striking chords with passionate audiences and generating buzz that’s too loud to be ignored. Emmy nominations: What voters got right and continue to get wrong 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The brasses particularly produced Mahler’s often startlingly bitter punctuating chords with an impact that clarified the drama Mr. Harding finds in Mahler’s contradictions. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z

As Mr. Smythe played light but somber chords, sometimes using the soft pedal and adding a small complement of electronics, Mr. Evans played in gunshot gusts and stout melodies — assertive and bold, but vaguely absconded. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The defendants deny these allegations, arguing that Wolfe was a writer for hire and that the chord progression was too commonplace to copyright. Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' Hit With Copyright Claim 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The piece – "Bye-Bye, Babar: Or, What is an Afropolitan?" – struck a chord with young Africans and people who love us, and by 2011 I was watching in wonder as my personal essay grew wings. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

In “Nightfalls,” the first of its four movements, high, keening tendrils on the violins stretched over dusky, yawning chords from the viola and cello. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z

When the music erupts with frenzied chords, tremors and sirenlike screeching, you know that the sister’s jealousy has turned murderous. Music Review: The Tale Those Strings Can Tell 2011-02-04T23:57:02Z

One intense section was driven by bursts of chords that built in density and volume. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Wang is nimble at that alternation, with power and accuracy in fast fingerwork and fortissimo chords — and, just as important, patience and elegance in cooler moments. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

And then you miss them, because your ears retain an afterimage of a powerful chord change, a smart arrangement of dynamics or repetition, a good groove. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z

He toys with sparseness, then a new pitched percussion chord leads to a subtle electric guitar declaration; it’s lightly distorted, yet not driven in an overly obvious way. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the compelling piece came across like a series of frustrated attempts at cohesion and peace, with fitful starts, hazy chords and driving yet irregular rhythmic figures. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Fusing elements of Renaissance polyphony and Baroque counterpoint with the gauzy, layered chords of the French Impressionists, it is music of beauty, mystery and power. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

It suggests a place where teenage boys might assemble to get high, get rowdy and blast power chords. Review: In ‘Eddie and Dave,’ Van Halen Gets a Makeover 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

This explains why his writing struck a chord with the common man. Ken Burns on Benjamin Franklin & our nation's flawed identity: "Race is the central question" of US 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

He gets closer to the present – though arguably not much cooler – using a Keane song to demonstrate another pleasing chord sequence. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

Honor the chords and write for the voice not the composer's ego. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

I’ve got a lot of lyrics and chords to relearn by Saturday night.” ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo 2013: Mumford & Sons Cancels Its Saturday Concert 2013-06-14T14:59:04Z

And I'd lose all my fingers and toes trying to name the many shows where it's just an awkward attempt at striking a contemporary chord – a bit like your English teacher rapping at you. Not too Posh to push pop: when music rocks theatre 2012-07-26T13:53:53Z

Over stately piano chords hinting at both “Hey Jude” and “A Day in the Life,” Mr. McCartney contemplates mortality and pain while still trying to offer love and strength. The Playlist: Paul McCartney’s Smooth Tunes, and 13 More New Songs 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

"Gimme Love" is your basic angular punk song: a couple of insistent, shout-along verses built around a slightly askew set of chords and a bridge that comes just when it should — but still surprises. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

He was knocking out some chords and seeing what sounded pretty. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

And two of their own songs, “You and I at Christmas Time” and “Merry Merry,” celebrate domestic comforts amid playfully meandering chords. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

It's the opening chord of Gustav Mahler's first symphony and, absorbing though the former prime minister's words are, I confess that Mahler ousts even Tony Blair every time. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

But much of the score otherwise tires as its pounding chords and thumping cross-rhythms alternate and overlap with more static, suspended passages. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The thing about the chord is that because of its need to move — not necessarily to resolve in the “Tristan” chord way — it seemed to encapsulate that the situation demands action. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

But she doesn't dance like a pop star, even as the pulsating chords of her new single "Green Light" crescendo. Life of the Party 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Rather, the musical fabric of Sybil Williams’s new play is an anthology of Billie Holiday numbers that treats Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a bebopper would a standard: chord changes underpinning a new, complex melody. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

There's actor Judy Garland, whose camp aesthetic and personal tale of suffering struck a chord with numerous gay men. Fearsome and fierce? How robot doll M3GAN become a queer icon 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The band plays straightforward Southern soul: three chords, blues and gospel roots, aching when it’s slow and growling and whooping when it’s fast. ArtsBeat Blog: At CMJ, a Critic's Imagination Come to Life 2011-10-21T17:45:41Z

The first song, “Sometimes the Moon Sat in the Well at Night,” followed a stark introductory set of piano chords with a vocal line dotted with exotic touches: dusky harmonies and curlicues of ornamentation. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Where would music be today if Wagner had been able to copyright his "Tristan" chord? 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

So they sit until, that is, they hear the first charismatic chords of a gratifyingly countrified version of Led Zep's "Ramble On", upon which a tidal wave of people head for the stage. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

This stresses the chords and can cause the singer to break their voice. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

It opens with Webb leading the orchestra through a stock series of simple chord changes. Behind Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Then, with a fanfare flourish of leaping chords, the piece breaks into an exuberant, shamelessly showy polonaise. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Even some chords, in the third movement especially, seemed differently voiced from usual, with the woodwind's contributions very much subordinated, though the sonorous effect in the final movement was undeniably irresistible. Budapest Festival O/Fischer – review 2013-04-28T13:17:18Z

The speech struck a chord, becoming a major topic of discussion that’s been reignited with the release of the film. Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

As well as doing the stock standards, the Beatles were a bit different because they were better at playing complicated chords. The birth of Beatlemania 2011-02-09T08:26:02Z

“Unplugged” was MTV’s tribute to the recording-business cliché that a great song only needs chords and a voice to reveal its quality, as if everything else is embellishment. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

“They defined those few chords with intricately interlocking parts, bearing down on them to turn repetition into a frenetic rave-up.” The Feelies on “the awkwardness of trying to break through” 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

Julia begins to suspect something else: The music contained "devil's chords," considered so dissonant in medieval times they were banned from church music. Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is a well-plotted thriller 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

This one, played by the Flux Quartet, was made of long chords and longer silences, with random drum comments from its composer, Greg Saunier. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Stepping Out in All Directions 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Sometimes she supported her wandering voice with a breathy, billowing chord on the synthesizer. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Bad Habit” is centered around a simple but warped chord progression, filtered through effects that make the whole song sound like it’s under a fish-eye lens. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In the final movement of Fine’s Symphony, a skittish passage in the strings distinctly echoes the slashing chords of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score’s fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

In fact, the combination on her debut single Uphill of the gentle patter of percussion and repeated electronic keyboard chords remind us of the backing to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z

The old shoegaze sound returns in the verses, with guitar counterpoint swathed in reverb, but the intro and chorus punch out syncopated power chords, banging hard for attention in the here and now. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Still, their vision of love and friendship struck a chord with viewers, most of whom could relate to at least some of their travails. "Romantically Challenged" not likely to win hearts 2010-04-17T00:30:00Z

For one thing, the familiar stentorian piano chords that accompany the opening soaring melody in the violins are not so loud in the second version and are played as arpeggios, or rolled chords. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The words struck a powerful chord in the Tiger's mind. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z

Perhaps the most shocking thing is that the famous opening chords are now rolled. Listen to Tchaikovsky, Stripped Down to His Intentions 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

“I was trying to voice chords using as few notes as possible.” Horace Parlan, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 86 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

But the affection for it came primarily from wanting to write songs, and country and folk music is the easiest place to hear how a song is put together with chords. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has no plans to slow down 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Never have two chords orbited in my heart the way they did on “Oh Allah.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Then there’s his way of lacing harmonies together, giving a subtle emphasis to a single note within each chord. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

I strummed the chords of a familiar classic and sang the accompanying lyrics, bugs and all. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

Then Mr. Hinterhäuser was simply astonishing in an unbroken hour of Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas, from the gentle loneliness of the first to the thunderous full-forearm cluster chords of the last. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

This worked in his favor: every chord voicing rang with purpose. Music Review: Four Pianists, Teaming and Competing 2011-07-22T23:35:20Z

A passionate episode is driven by short bursts of alternating chords that gain thickness in subsequent sections. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

That restless motion is enfolded in swelling string-section chords, going nowhere in particular yet not staying still. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

That strikes a chord with Plame – and no doubt women in other fields too. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z

As the title of the project, “Silent Ballad,” suggests, the photos are most powerful when considered together, in the chords formed among images. The Elderly Bearers of a Folk-Music Tradition in Rural Tennessee 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

It also stirred pushback from some critics who found the music too blatant: How many episodes of pummeling percussion, gnashing chords, screeching brass and sorrowfully wafting string melodies can one piece contain? Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Haydn’s symphony takes its nickname from a loud chord early in the second movement, after four phrases of deepening slumber, intended “to wake the ladies,” as the probably apocryphal story goes. Review: Verbier Festival Recovers in Style with Finnish Maestro 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The foundation was a minor chord and a recurring sequence; above it were ghostly whispers and sporadic, three-dimensional whirlwinds of dissonance. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Amid all this chaos, we found the 10 pieces of news that struck both a good and bad chord in our pop culture psyche. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of culture we're feeling iffy about 2011-03-12T16:01:00Z

Here, the Tristan Chord laments that in his youth, restless for harmonic novelty, he created a chord that erased the rules of harmony. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

His music drew on, among many other things, the fanfaring keyboard chords of trance, the blips of electro and a classical choir, none of them in predictable doses. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The issue struck a chord with Mr. Sanderson then, and it still does today. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Nylon magazine featured the young star as someone to watch in its May "Young Hollywood" issue, and she appears in the new "Scream 4" film, giving her vocal chords a workout. The tribal edge of fashion 2011-05-19T20:19:23Z

On and on the cantata dragged, gathering sombre poignance in minor chords. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z

Floating on a Boat, Four Hands on the Piano The composer Morton Feldman wrote vast works of whisper-soft chords and eerie harmonies that unfold with glacial, regal slowness. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z

Sometimes there are chords, but Mr. Hince often plays just single notes or a guitar so distorted it registers more as texture than as harmony. Music Review: Two Musicians at One With the Basics 2011-08-09T22:22:16Z

“I was trying to voice chords using as few notes as possible. When I heard Horace Silver, I copied his voicings and they sounded good to me.” Horace Parlan, jazz pianist who overcame disability, dies at 86 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

And, hell, while we’re at this, who even needs three notes in a chord when you can have two-note chords, eh? 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The backup is mostly the trap skeleton of a slow shuffle beat, a few piano chords and sporadic bass tones, echoing life at an emotional standstill. The Playlist: Lil Wayne Recaptures His Old Magic and 8 More New Songs 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Throughout the piece the violin plays a stream of jagged chords, gnarly intervals, and twisted thematic flights. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

And “Oboe Concerto,” adagio and solemn with an old punk-song chord progression, deals with the subject of aging and death, with flurries of synthesizer static around the tune like a radar alert. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

There is a chasteness, a church-like quality in the voicings of his chords and in the plainspoken tone of his voice. Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

"This story has struck such a rich resonant chord with audiences of all ages, which is very exciting - to have your work honored by your industry peers is even better," Rush said in a statement. 'The King's Speech' gets 12 Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T14:00:55Z

Still, “Demolition” struck an ­early chord that was repeated throughout TIFF: cautious hopes being rewarded by surprised delight. The Toronto International Film Festival goes old-school, in a good way 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The one part of the symphony that borders on the humorous is the repeated, hammered chords of its final bars. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

His guitar was always clear and focused, whether it was balancing riffs in perfect tandem with Richard Lloyd in Television, clawing concise rhythm chords or arcing skyward for a keening solo. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the case of World Peace, it sounds like a lot of those initial sparks — the chord progressions, the hooks, etc. — illuminated the process even more than usual. REVIEW: World Peace Is None of Your Business Is Definitively Morrissey 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

As well as using the same chords Michael Jackson would later bring to Billie Jean it is regarded as one of the earliest examples of techno. Hidden treasures: Telex – Looking for Saint Tropez 2013-01-22T15:04:00Z

He strummed the opening chords to “The Way You Look Tonight,” a song that appeared on her 1993 album, “Close as Pages in a Book,” a collection of songs by Dorothy Fields. In Barbara Cook’s Final Days, Her Friends Came to Sing at Her Bedside 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The tonic chord does follow the dominant everywhere, like a stalker. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

So I sat with him and we reversed our roles of years before, as I showed him the chord shapes and strumming to Noel Gallagher's everyman anthem. Family life 2012-12-01T00:05:33Z

The tunes and chord progressions keep slipping their moorings and heading down unexpected paths. m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z

There is something so yearning about the initial chord sequence. Six Songs of Me: Kele Okereke 2012-08-14T09:37:00Z

I realized from watching him that taking a life like mine and adding three chords is probably where a song like ‘Mr. Bojangles’ came from. Texas Monthly: Todd Snider Records a Tribute to Jerry Jeff Walker 2012-04-15T06:03:05Z

Nisa muses, at first just above a whisper, about a deteriorating relationship; her voice is cushioned by synthesizer chords while guitar lines poke at her like unwanted realizations. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Over a handful of mournful organ chords, Ocean imagines a one-sided conversation with a taxi driver. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

In “See What She Seeing,” a song about joyful infatuation, the percussion sputtered fitfully instead of providing a beat, while keyboard and guitar effects made chords waver in pitch instead of providing a dependable backdrop. Music Review: David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors Do ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ 2012-07-10T22:16:36Z

The solution to the problem seems simple, it's a quick fix - turn the opera into a silent disco and free Malevich's art to strike its chords with the visitors. Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The song “Spooks” has its roots in an as-yet-unreleased Radiohead track, but the most winning feature for guitar here is “Amethyst” — a piece that combines folky strumming and droning background chords to ultimately joyous effect. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

It is just a big G major chord for full orchestra. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

He could play the harmonica, and after learning a few basic chords on the guitar he was off and running. David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

The music opens out from a lone strummed guitar to full band, with harmonic ambiguity built into the chords. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

The chords didn’t resonate so much as vanish, one after the other, into eternity, an effect somehow simultaneously consoling and utterly terrifying. A Chord Vanishing Into Eternity: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

To temper the melancholy, the music offers sentimentality, in the syrupy 1950s romance that oozes across Surrender's waltzing piano or the title track's country chords. Joshua James: From the Top of Willamette Mountain – review 2012-11-22T21:15:01Z

Her harrowing reminiscences about working for a cable company for 10 years struck a chord with followers. Want to Become a Writer? Lauren Hough Recommends Bartending. 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The floating feeling pervading the music — the tolling chords, the long decays — suggests an absence of beginnings and ends. Review: In Carla Morrison’s ‘Amor Supremo,’ Love and the Void 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

But it would appear that Tinie's recent assertion about wanting to make commercial pop songs, not just grime tracks for a cult minority, has struck a chord with Syco. New band of the day ? No 762: Smurfie Syco 2010-04-08T15:08:00Z

Beethoven minces no words in the Credo, the Catholic statement of belief, which opens with an emphatic chord sequence. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

And Beth is fuzzy as hell but features every heart-aching chord sequence in the book, and the book is My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize. New band of the day: Dom (No 989) 2011-03-18T19:05:41Z

Bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order and the Cure often dug into one chord with circling, inexorable riffs, building tension within stasis; the singers would offer steady chants or get themselves worked up. Warpaint Plays Celebrate Brooklyn in Park Slope 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

His clarity in No. 10 was remarkable, cascades of runs and bell-like chords unfolding with dazzling energy. Music Review: Messiaen’s ‘Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus’ at Met Museum 2012-12-12T23:21:19Z

As an equally unlikely encore, Ms. Chase played her own arrangement of Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, expertly deploying unconventional techniques to evoke a violinist’s bowed chords and plucks. Music Review: Claire Chase Playing Flute at Weill Recital Hall 2010-04-23T22:34:00Z

Neu! take mountainous great chords that pick their way over simple, fist-punching drums and arpeggiated melody lines to create a triumphant, victorious sort of euphoria with only the tiniest hints of a nagging undercurrent. Readers recommend: Songs about euphoria 2010-08-19T21:37:00Z

Adams starts with textbook minimalism — pulsating winds and a trio of soaring female voices — but soon transforms it with wide open chords and a newfound lyricism that would become his hallmark. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

It never goes further than that with chords. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Their sound was characterized by long, lush chords — Mr. Barbour called them “purple chords” — and an improvisational style that made four voices seem like five or six. Ross Barbour, a Founding ?Freshman,? Dies at 82 2011-08-24T05:00:33Z

The components of Cage’s Quartet in Four Parts, a 20-minute piece that explores stillness and quietude, come from a set pool of short motifs, sonorities and modal-sounding chords that appear repeatedly. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z

What Debussy did was to pull apart the epoxy-strength attachment those chords share and allow them to float, not entirely free from each other, but in a more polyvalent, even ambiguous relation to each other. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“He got me straight on chords, music theory, the basics,” Mr. Winston told The Charleston Daily Mail of West Virginia in 2005. George Winston, Pianist With a Soothing ‘New Age’ Sound, Dies at 74 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

"He sat down and played, we fell in with him and God help the guitar players, see if they could make all ... the chord changes happen." Jerry Lee Lewis lost for words as he turns 75 2010-09-29T09:21:00Z

It begins with “Night,” a slow, mysterious passage containing a technically B flat minor chord that is also a cluster of nearly all the notes in the scale. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

“Other orchestras might ease into those chords. It would be great for that style — but that’s just not our style.” The Chicago Symphony’s Brass Is World-Famous. Hear It Blast. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

A drone held it together, but this was a rocker’s musical marathon; when in doubt, a 4/4 beat and a solid chord would get everyone through. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The mounting suicide rate especially struck a chord with Cavanaugh because of his own experience with bullying. A Maryland 7-year-old was bullied. He responded by opening a food pantry. 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

The form of the song is simple and its sound overdriven: a fuzzed-out electric piano bangs out quarter-note chords through the whole thing, in sync with the guitars. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

“That strike a chord or are synergistic with the collective consciousness.” The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The barbarous kind of dissonance is the easiest for listeners to discern, like the obsessively repeated chords at the opening of the “Dance of the Adolescents” in Part 1 of “Rite.” Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

But in the 75 years since the number was first heard on Broadway, it has blossomed into a global anthem that strikes a strong chord during tough times. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

“This book will teach me how to tune the heirloom guitar and introduce me to the rudiments of strumming chords and reading music. I’m in heaven,” Sting recalled in his book. Sting, the tireless troubadour

It was as if a single shimmering, subtly changing cosmic chord keeps lingering. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z

Whereas when you watch somebody, the way a person strums a single chord — that can be an incredibly powerful thing. Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The jaunty jazz chords in the brass introduced the bluesy piano solo of the first movement, and it was not long before Thibaudet proved he is a pianist who can do anything. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z

And “Man of War” envisions isolation and decay, framed by descending chords and a somber yet exhilarating crescendo. On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

But within the church at least, a chord was struck, deep and resonant and lasting. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

It begins not with a typical fanfare salute, but a quizzical, searching line for solo trombone that soon is cushioned by pungent, soft-spoken brass chords. Review: At Caramoor, a Concert Signals Return and Remembrance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

"It is done with choppy chords and chopping off chords short and in doing so you can make percussive patterns with it." Cult musician Wilko Johnson "so alive" as death approaches 2013-02-04T15:54:13Z

Mr. Lightsey has a dry, clear touch and an elegant way with chord voicings, which go hand in hand with his deep respect for melody. Kirk Lightsey Returns to the Village Vanguard After 25 Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

In these beverages, hops work to both bring flavor and novelty, in terms of their unique profiles and of how they strike a familiar chord with beer drinkers. Hopped beverages are the no-ABV drink of summer 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

It ended with blast after slow blast of the closing chord, dozens of times, turning into slabs of abstract noise. Music Review: Global Citizen Festival, With Neil Young, to Combat Poverty 2012-09-30T16:23:44Z

Bach was a master of suspension, in which a note or two from one chord is suspended, or prolonged, as the other notes of the chord move on to the next in the series. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Mournful minor chords, dissolving into distortion or receding into single notes and silence. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Choi said the original cartoon struck a chord with those South Koreans who believe that Chun showed no sign of repentance. Crowdfunding rescues provocative S.Korean film 2012-10-01T12:59:17Z

His particular brand of wit, pathos, mime and manic zaniness struck a chord with every audience. Letter: Joe Melia, zany star of the Cambridge Footlights 2012-11-11T12:33:51Z

So, the book struck a chord with me, but is it really representative of the whole system? State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

But Mr. Krlic gradually offered an exit from the abyss, with a deep drone that was more note than noise, resolving into a sustained, rapturous major chord that felt like redemption. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z

As second-year guitar students, they were learning basic first-position chord progression and the major scales. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

There is a world-weary heaviness to the work, with lumbering chords in the strings, monumental outbursts and abrupt silences. ARVO PäRT: ‘ADAM’S LAMENT’ AND OTHER CHORAL WORKS 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z

This episodic 17-minute work opens with ostinato figures and pounding chords: Philip Glass meets Bartok. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z

The domes are removed, the servers vanish, and the opening chords of Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” wash over the room. T Magazine: Shanghai Surprise 2013-08-23T11:00:29Z

The music is an elegy, set to the somber minor chords of a string ensemble, without a rhythm track, recognizing intractable problems while Nas quietly insists, “We need a plan to survive.” The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tao’s playing shines in extremity, through the muscular chords of the Wolfe piece — her raw response to the Sept. 11 attacks — and the bitterness of the Rzewski selections. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The music mostly moves in pungent block chords that let the words come through clearly, sung here with robust sound and crisp diction. Music Review: A Symposium for Young People?s Chorus and New Conductors 2012-02-17T23:41:15Z

The opening credits — an assembly-line montage scored to the pounding first chords of the blues song “I’m a Man,” sung with new lyrics by Captain Beefheart — provide a brutal annunciation. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But he set aside the beat for two long ballads with only piano chords and his computer-tuned voice: “Heartless,” about a breakup, and “Runaway,” a toast to boorish behavior. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

His songs often feature angular melodies and modal passages, and he plays emphatically, almost like a percussionist, with lots of chord clusters, some containing hints of dissonance. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

His solo eases up to a high note and then casually trickles down, continuing through the track to garland Wonder’s vocals with little slides and curlicues, reveling in the song’s sophisticated chord progression. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

An intensely responsive soloist, he maneuvers with assurance as Mr. Alexander dances about him, bright chords and buzzing inflections laying fresh bait at every turn. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

As the opening chords of “Carmina Burana” sound, they suddenly fall to their knees, screaming wildly until the sound becomes laughter. Dance Review: Leafy Carpets of Laughter, Hints of Wartime and a Quirky Coltrane Score 2010-10-04T21:11:00Z

Rain drizzled, and my heart felt plucked with each chord of the guitar. Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

Others speak admiringly — and wistfully — of their impact on country music, merging a classic and contemporary sound that struck a chord with listeners. The ‘Dixie’ is gone. The Chicks are forever. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

A low, bruising guitar riff and seething organ chords carry a tale of temptation, blind lust and infidelity: “the beginning of the end of my happy home.” Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Freddie Freeloader” needed to be played twice because Davis didn’t like a chord change on the first attempt, he said. ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer still keeping time as album turns 60 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But her latest work, “Will-Hay Nelson,” really struck a chord in the community upon its debut in November, Bays told news outlets. ‘On the Farm Again’ Woman makes hay replica of Willie Nelson 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

What is it about this case — about any case where a mother is accused of killing a child — that strikes this particularly resonant chord? Motherlode: Why Caylee's Death is Personal 2011-07-06T12:29:29Z

Mr. DeJohnette sidled over to a piano to stab at some Monkish chords. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z

Playing guitar, he led Deerhunter through songs that used just a few rudimentary chords each but rode those structures toward cacophony and rapture. Music Review: Amid Cacophony and Rapture, a Plaintive Quality Prevails 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

Lady Gaga’s Haus Laboratories, introduced to much fanfare two years ago, missed striking a chord with her rabid fan base. Dear Celebrities: Please Stop Churning Out Beauty Brands 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Sus chords are suspended chords, and they have been around for a long, long time. The many layers — and lovers — of Joni Mitchell 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The staple was infectious, instrumental dance music based on the three chords of the blues — slow or fast. Musician Kent Morrill's bandmates throw a party in his memory 2011-04-29T21:13:05Z

In “This Bed Is Getting Crowded,” over minor chords hinting at Tom Petty, he wonders, “Am I here with you, are you here with me?/Or are we both here with him?” Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z

It begins with strong, saturated chords before moving on to fragmented versions — some unison, some not — of syncopated soul riffs that are like abstractions of the song. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z

I liked some of the other songs and didn’t like some, but “Visions of Johanna” had me at the first chord. Just like a woman: I’m a feminist and I love Bob Dylan—even though I know I shouldn’t 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But in 2004, her vocal chords were damaged by Lyme disease, which also afflicts people with lethargy and joint pains. Shania Twain bounces back with "Now" 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

When the chords break down altogether, do the instruments have to stay together neatly in order to form a coherent whole? The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

I presume that Mattingly's sense of being was a kind of stasis found in the fragmented, consonant chords at the end. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

The music unfolds in mostly slow-moving vocal lines that emerge from a subdued piano part thick with cluster chords in the style of Messiaen. Music Review: Julia Bullock Gives New York Recital Debut at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-03-12T20:33:31Z

The second half is a friendlier, more familiar Sabzi, one we recognize from previous Blue Scholars songs: sappy major chord progression, ecstatic pitch-tweaked synthesizer melody. Download this: "John DeLorean" by Seattle's Blue Scholars 2011-04-20T17:34:06Z

Our critics are your guides to the chords that sent shivers down their spines, the voices they can’t forget, the set changes that left them breathless. A Piano Rang Out Like Gunfire: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

There are too many chords, too many sounds. Phoenix: 'We are French, we are romantic by essence' 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z

He tended to gloss over big moments with infuriatingly brisk tempos, and the crunching appoggiatura on the work’s final chord, one of the most eloquent dissonances in all of music history, simply failed to register. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Peele could have used an ominous score to underline this violent scene: the audience would know what to expect when the dark chords chimed in and would brace themselves for violence. Mood music: how a jaunty pop song can ramp up movie terror 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The final chord of the Brahms is a case in point. An earthquake in C major: Daniel Barenboim and the Berliners 2010-05-03T14:50:00Z

There was the inevitable, if in this case basically meaningless, connection to Hollywood, and an unresolved chord of anticlimax at the end. The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Flying Lotus repeatedly whipsawed between lush chords and brutal beats with deep basslines. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

A few cyclical, undulating, fingerpicked chords were enough for each song, with Ms. Shelley pinpointing the rhythm and Mr. Salsburg entwining it with touches of filigree. Review: Joan Shelley Offers Celtic-Tinged Melodies 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

From the Morning Heat is nice but icy, and Ramona is a crisp beat ballad undercut by sad chords and a guitar figure that says, "I am bereft and alone and life is futile". New band of the day ? Craft Spells (No 1,002) 2011-04-11T15:59:29Z

We would like to reiterate that Adele is to undergo surgery for a hemorrhaged vocal chord. Adele dismisses throat cancer rumors 2011-11-01T20:55:41Z

Borders” As a song, “Borders” is starkly functional: two chords, a modal Middle Eastern-sounding hook and verses made from terse, pointed lists — “police shots,” “identities,” “privilege” — punctuated by a deadpan refrain: “What’s up with that?” The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

For years, younger acts enlisted dizzying chord changes and growly vocals in a bid to sound less commercial. The Producer Refining Heavy Metal’s Sound 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The only addition is a single note — a low A — in the brief final chord. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

And Forget, its title shrieked as a banshee war-cry over icy chords and frowning drums. Lianne La Havas: Is Your Love Big Enough? – review 2012-07-05T20:15:01Z

You can’t write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes. Gail Zappa, widow of Frank Zappa and protector of his iconoclastic rock legacy, dies at 70 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

She’s known for her ambling, conversational flow and for kicking around heavy subjects like abortion and gun violence in a light, almost childlike voice, often over gospel-driven chord progressions. Things to do This Weekend: Free Arts in Parks! 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Everybody was included in this chic look and I think that’s what struck a chord. Lou Eyrich goes for ‘wonderment’ with her costumes for ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’

At first it’s tentative — chords and pauses, the clatter of a rainstick — but other, more ominous sounds crowd in: distorted guitar, insistent drums, rumbly low arpeggios. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

While tracks such as “Posing in Bondage” carry on themes of loneliness and longing, the lead single, “Be Sweet,” is a jolt to the system with its funky bass line and playful ’80s pop chords. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

It was startling, after so much control, to hear the orchestra grow slightly flabby in some of the ensemble chords of the Ravel works. Ludovic Morlot brings a pretty French touch to NSO concert 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

For the past three decades, Lalah has been recognized for such talents as her frankly astonishing ability to sing chords and also her subtler gifts: her sensual, inventive approach to melodies and her smoldering tone. Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

He played percussively with fingers flattened and splayed, he left unexpected spaces others would have filled with showers of notes, and his chords clanged with dissonance. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z

It segues out of commercial, into opening guitar chords that years from now will sound both perfect and like they always existed, part of rock music DNA, but I don’t know that yet. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Isolated moments hinted at more dangerous entertainment: the dark cloud of a chord near the end of Ravel’s “Beauty and the Beast” was ravishingly ominous, and the punctuations of Stravinsky’s “Infernal Dance” detonated with force. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

There are slant guitar chords that we use in our music. “The Slants” Suit: Asian-American Band Goes to Court Over Name 2013-10-23T16:54:59Z

“At the beginning there is quite a lot of chromaticism, and at a certain point there was a chord out of tune and Pierre said, ‘No, no, this is sharp, this is flat.’ 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z

The kind of song that transports you into a meditative state, its melodic chord pairings recall possibility, self-reflection and optimism. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

It's hard to tell if it's a parable or an anecdote drawn from life; either way, it strikes a chord. Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z

The last line “Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful” is extended over five repetitions, gently rocking between C and F, the simplest chords imaginable. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

I became fixated on learning the chords and playing the song. How to survive a divorce: find acceptance after falling apart 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Ancestral Duckets” is a sly waltz that roams purposefully through chromatic chord changes and sprouts a multitude of Muldrow’s vocals: harmonizing, scatting, riffing, taking over the melody and then playfully sailing above it. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

It plays as farce, but the chords of family tragedy resonate underneath the laughter. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z

“Wish You Were Gay” — a guy is ignoring her, and she wishes he was indifferent to her gender rather than her in particular — starts with just acoustic-guitar chords and her voice, tokens of pop sincerity. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

When the orchestra broke into the surging main theme, Mr. Gerstein played the series of thick, rising chords not just as an accompaniment, but as another musical element. Music Review: A Fresh Take Adds a Jolt to a Standard 2011-06-29T19:08:58Z

Like Hendrix, Jones is a self-taught guitar hero in his own right, drawn to Jimi’s unorthodox style that allowed him to play chords and solos simultaneously. 50 years after death, Jimi Hendrix continues shaping Seattle music, as same racial inequities persist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Slow-moving, sustained chords typically painted the sky movements. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burrell broke through with wide, ringing chords; Mr. Parker pushed hard, rhythmically and melodically, with chords and patterns. Celebrating Charles Gayle at the Vision Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The tangled guitar line that opens "Power Drunk," courtesy of Mike Campbell, mixes with keyboard player Benmont Tench's organ chords on a song about the intoxicating allure of power. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The organist sometimes uses a small wood bar to depress blocks of keys to produce punchy cluster chords, surrounded by bursts of chimes, gongs and mallet percussion. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Steadily, the guitar riffs expanded into murky chords and clusters, as single electronic tones seemed to split and fracture. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

His preferred sounds are cloudlike, sustained synthesizer chords or sparse bits of piano that well up gradually, then ripple off into the distance. Playlist : New Releases: Atlas Sound, Lila Downs and Michael Jackson 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z

The central section takes the chords away, allowing the music to dance freely. Prom 57: Tonhalle Orchestra Z?rich/Zinman ? review 2011-08-28T14:54:45Z

The last few chords of My Fair Lady. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z

Finally, Ms. Linsey was unleashed, her voice roaring, while Mr. Jones got impressionistic with his electric guitar, playing scraped-up, wobbly chords that poked and prodded at the edges of Ms. Linsey’s lines. Music Review: Songs Say One Thing, Actions Another 2011-01-11T22:20:25Z

What she knows is that it was in the wake of last fall’s U.S. presidential election — and her reaction to the work’s dissonant piano chords and siren clarinet notes was immediate. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Often it is more stylised, youth-friendly violent movies that strike the “dangerous” chord. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Then there is the added drama that the New York lawsuit names UBS as a defendant, striking a sensitive chord. Heirs Sue Bank Over Sale of Nazi-Looted Art 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Gangly picked lines and strummed chords tangled and jostled in unruly webs, linking briefly into stair-stepping unisons before falling apart again. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z

The song crescendoed to a big, AC/DC-style finish, and during that wash of power chords and crash cymbals, Ryan kicked one of the monitor wedges off the front of the stage. The night Ryan Adams said “f**k you” to the Fillmore 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

As the bluegrass-inflected chords of “Wake Me Up” pulsed from the organ, the worshipers sang along enthusiastically. A Church Remembers Avicii, With Hits Instead of Hymns 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Nothing is resolved in “Let’s Find an Out” — not the chords, not the melody, not the situation. The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

I really think this one struck a chord because of what Libby was able to do on her phone: capture this man's voice, take an image of him, video of him walking. Giving a voice to the Delphi murders victims and families: "It never goes away, that pain" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

There are stretches of thick, tart block chords, searching lyrical lines, mysterious washes of sound and delicate strands, brought together compellingly in Zhu’s account. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Over pulsing minor chords, he wonders, “If I have today, should I let sorrow flow?” Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Most pieces of music are rushing from one chord to the next. Ticking Watch. Boat Engine. Slowness. The Secrets of the ‘Dunkirk’ Score. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

It started from the premise of Mr. Coleman’s music: clarion bebop themes giving way to long and grooving collective improvisations with no predetermined chord changes. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

In “Worry Walks Beside Me,” over a bluesy, descending chord progression, he wonders, “What will it take to be free again?” Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z

“That was informed by the chord progression, but also, I was trying to conceal the fact that my voice was weaker. I had such a clear and loud thought: ‘This is an important song. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Almost all other genres are much more produced, or the chords are made from a combination of instruments, not just an acoustic guitar. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has no plans to slow down 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The piece opens with the chord that famously closed “A Day in the Life,” a clock-stopping, emotional release to cap the pensive, many-layered symphony of existence that song expresses. ‘Pepperland’ is an ecstatic and provocative Beatles tribute — and like no land you’ve been to before 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

And this chord turned into a little fugue. Green Book: the true story behind the Oscar-buzzed road trip drama 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her music is chirpy and kinetic, but weird chords and nervous bits rustling in the orchestra suggest that Josephine fears that his plan to enlist is dangerous. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

It begins by setting Banks amid wordless voices and a few sparse piano notes, opens an abyss with deep bass notes, then closes in with suffocating synthesizer chords and whizzing, menacing effects. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The symphony begins with large, heavy chords and somber, dark melodic ideas. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the opening of the concerto, which begins with a series of ominous chords that grow in sound and intensity, Mr. Lugansky voiced each one to highlight harmonic intricacies. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z

Hidden City attracts socially conscious travelers, and Grace says that the guides’ personal stories strike a chord with visitors. City tours for the socially conscious: A glimpse into the life of Barcelona’s homeless 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Higher voices intrude, until there is a pileup of parts, and the music heaves with Expressionistic harmonies reminiscent of Berg, yet spiked with jazzy chords and piercing dissonance that somehow seem American and fresh. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

This challenge struck a chord with many people, including vegans and vegetarians looking to change the factory-farming system. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital on Aug. 28 after she went into cardiac arrest during a minor surgical procedure on her vocal chords at Yorkville Endoscopy Center in New York City. New York Health Department Investigates Joan Rivers Clinic 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

At one point a perfectly luminous chord, spread through the Houston Chamber Choir’s tenors and basses, was cut off by a bleak, sepulchral cluster in the piano and celesta. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

All music is experimental to an extent – even Viva Brother, rumour has it, once learned a minor chord. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

Hymns about “traveling on” to a “heavenly home” are threaded through the cycle: sometimes accompanied by harplike strumming inside the piano, sometimes reharmonized with more unstable, modernist chords. Review: Gabriel Kahane Finds Inspiration in Strangers on a Train 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Now and then, Mr. Rothenberg sent volleys of jazzy riffs skyward, but more often the group produced mildly dissonant chords, rhythmic shudders and breathy whispers. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“This is one concert that can’t be canceled,” Bryce, a soft-spoken electrical engineer and pianist, said as he untangled chords and patched them into the two amps in the back of the car. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

With its 40 minutes of eddying currents of whispering, shouting, clapping, singing and talking, the piece struck a powerful chord with some of spectators. Shouting, whispering, clapping - Lang's 'Crowd Out' has it all 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

His songs, with their hoarse vocals and stubborn chords, pick over ruined love affairs. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z

"Blacklands is a small, simple book and I'm still stunned and delighted that it seems to have struck a chord with so many people," she said. Debut novelist Belinda Bauer wins Golden Dagger 2010-10-11T13:45:00Z

People call the cops the moment a guitar chord is struck. dEUS's Tom Barman: 'I was fed up with singing about myself' 2012-07-04T11:41:37Z

Spread throughout the gallery’s three exhibition floors, 14 works in sculpture, photography and video frequently seem to isolate, one at a time, the various subjects and emotional chords of “Love Is the Message.” Arthur Jafa’s Profound Meditations on Black America 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The madrigals must be sung or, in this case, played, with pinpoint precision, so listeners will realize that the strange chords are intended. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z

Also Korngoldesque are the glinting dissonances that affirm rather than undermine the diatonic harmony, as if putting floodlights on the chords. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

It’s inspiring to see the sketches for the Mozart operas, in which all he writes are the vocal lines fitted to the words, and a bass line below, with a few chords here and there. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

The lasting sound of this crisis greets you the minute you turn on a TV: sonorous piano chords with a patronizing voice-over about these uncertain times. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

It's just that fantastic combination of beautiful chords with really great moving lyrics. Pet Shop Boys choose their 10 all-time favourite dance tracks 2013-07-11T18:00:00Z

The album opens not with bouncy rock but with the wordless vocal harmonies and mournful descending chords of a track called “Think About the Days.” New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

And Mr. Fleck was endlessly acute, rarely missing an unexpected chord change or a chance to apply his crisp embroidery to a phrase. Chick Corea and Béla Fleck, Reveling in Their High-Wire Interplay 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

"This is Sally Hatchet" blatantly borrows from Brian Wilson's unpredictable chord sequences and the Beatles' staccato electric guitar stabs. Seattle summer albums by Father John Misty and more 2012-05-18T13:13:59Z

The book's title is a nod to Sinatra's nickname, but also a hint that Kaplan wants to dissect the very DNA of Sinatra's vocal chords. 'Frank: The Voice': James Kaplan chronicles how Frank Sinatra went from good to great 2010-12-03T22:28:00Z

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in a typical aside, “the greatest E major chord in the history of Western music.” Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z

There was drama and momentum in the music’s developing harmonic movement; at times a shift to a new chord felt like an event. Music Review: The Saxophonist Miguel Zen?n at Montclair State 2012-02-07T23:33:32Z

Each chord feels like it’s finding repose from the previous one, creating a sense of release without feeling repetitive. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

But he interpreted the words to mean that he should play sparser chords with his left hand, allowing more harmonic freedom for other soloists. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’

Does something about our first favorite song’s chord progression or production style predict what sort of music we grow up to like best? Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

When making the 1976 film “A Star Is Born,” Barbra Streisand, still in the novice stages of learning to play guitar for the movie, brought a few rough chords to the lyricist Paul Williams. Barbra Streisand Debuts Lost Footage From ‘A Star Is Born’ on Netflix 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

But My Letters remains extraordinary, with its chord structure as wayward and restless as the tricksiest Bacharach, underneath a spooked lyric about "dead paper, mute and white". Hidden treasures: Jeri Southern – The Southern Style 2013-02-07T14:22:13Z

He started playing some piano chords and it became a whole new idea. Music Producers Explain How They Created a Hit 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere there are some excellent songs in this score that challenge what musical theatre is about: broken beats, samples, chord progressions far from your average ballad. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z

Mr. Dean’s final piece, “Engelsflügel 2,” begins with a series of soft, sustained cluster chords from which a sly melodic line emerges. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In this quartet he uses timbres that evoke a swarm of bees, for example, as well as pizzicato chords, eerie harmonics and a mournful conclusion. Music Review: Philharmonia Quartett Berlin at Weill Recital Hall 2012-10-14T22:09:02Z

The first movement of the Symphonie Concertante begins with ominous, sputtering tones in the basses and timpani and misty sustained chords, over which a deceptively breezy melody is played on the piano. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z

“Monk,” which references Nina Simone and Carter Stanley, sounds like nine chords and the truth. Review: On the rebound, Madeira finds the power in healing 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

A character called Dominant, an embodiment of the dominant chord in tonal harmony, complains to a bartender about her fate. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

To this day, hearing the opening chords produces a Pavlovian response of instant joy. Why I love… Julie Andrews 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

They nitpick mercilessly over tiny details — a tambourine hit, a sustained chord, a blip of vocal harmony. The Seattle band The Head and the Heart prepares itself for something big 2010-10-15T23:07:00Z

It was a triumph for power chords as international diplomacy. Pop & Rock Listings for July 31-Aug. 6 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

All the songs in Perfume Genius' roughly half-hour set were just a few chords decorated with small melodic keyboard figures or Hadreas/Wyffels doing a vocal "ooh" at just the right moment. Concert review: Perfume Genius at the Croc 09/22/10 2010-09-23T17:55:00Z

The first piece is mysterious, almost aphoristic, just tentative piano chords and a quizzical violin line. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z

“In theory when a musician improvises over a chord progression, they should be hearing the main melody even though they are playing something else,” he said. Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Yet I must say that “Missed Calls” struck particularly deep chords, and although I didn’t think this was possible, I experienced an even more heightened awe of Beattie’s skills. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Here’s how it is for me,” Mr. Erhard said, leaning in, giving his vocal chords a break. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Some others, I just played the chord and the computer randomly plays up and down the scales, so it creates quite an interesting blend of arpeggios. Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Dingman’s own style stands out: he uses it not just for melody and percussion but also for sound, in long, smoky chords beaming out like floodlighting. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z

These thoughtful novels are not sequels in the traditional sense, but they’re part of the same chord; they depend upon one another for tone and resonance. Review | In ‘Jack,’ Marilynne Robinson’s fourth Gilead novel, a lost soul embarks on an impossible love affair 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Witness how the hairs on the back of your neck lift in unison as those long, soft chords cut in over the bassline. Readers recommend: Songs about euphoria 2010-08-19T21:37:00Z

But it uses no minor chords, which defined the song as it was. New Music: New Albums Include ‘A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac’ 2012-08-13T22:29:39Z

Suddenly there’s a pause, and over more separated, more emphatic chords Ms. Spektor sings: “Enjoy your youth/Sounds like a threat,” separating the lines with stark drumbeats. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Loose Change” backs him with an implied beat — no drums, lots of space — sketched by syncopated chords from a string ensemble, skulking synthesizer tones and his own imploring voice. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The whirling figurations, however, are underpinned by a series of sustained chords in brass and strings, and what we actually experience is a slow-moving chorale, fantastically and wildly embroidered. Prom 57: Tonhalle Orchestra Z?rich/Zinman ? review 2011-08-28T14:54:45Z

The final section was dominated by long sustained chords that would crescendo and then subside into almost inaudible calm. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Throughout “Ghosteen,” the tempos are slow and slower, as songs circle through a handful of chords or hover in place while tension builds. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

His trademark sweetness and tightly strummed chords are in full effect. Album review: Benjamin Gibbard's 'Former Lives' 2012-10-15T13:26:05Z

In Ms. Yamane’s piece, Mr. Kigawa played busy chords that evoked the bumbling steps of an infant, countered with nervous upward scales reminiscent of a Shepard Tone. Review: A Pianist’s Modern Vision of Conflict and Persistence 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Rothko Chapel” unfolds as a series of fragmentary viola lines, flickers of notes on the celesta, isolated wordless chords intoned by the chorus and subdued rhythmic figures in the percussion. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z

That Glass was there, pounding out his broken chords and pulsating rhythms, heightened the mood of poignant concentration. La bohème; Koyaanisqatsi/Britten Sinfonia; Der fliegende Holländer – review 2012-12-23T00:09:28Z

Two years ago, however, the guitarist decided it was time to return to the Big Apple, for reasons that will strike a chord with many readers. Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell returns to Seattle for a Jazz Alley gig with his trio 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

The brilliant organist Benjamin Sheen had mastered a technique called for here, in which restless, leaping themes in thick cluster chords are played by two padded blocks with handle grips. Music Review: ?Launching the Percussion Revolution? at Juilliard 2012-02-01T00:03:35Z

Other musicians have their own favorite corners: a juicy chord here, an archaic lyric there, or a moment in which standard congregational hymns can be spiced up with a touch of chromatic alteration. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The production is basic: a programmed beat, a cycle of electric-keyboard chords, increments of bass and backup voices. Weezer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Nostalgia Trip, and 10 More New Songs 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

It comes to a head in the epilogue, with a thunderous final chord, a long held drone that begins as a plaintive dirge for the mother but magnifies into the family's death-shudder. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

There is a spot in the “All’Italiana,” right after the cadenza, where the piano has these huge chords in left and right and they run toward each other. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

It plays the single note riff at the core of Wonder's song, and chord parts similar to what you would hear from a strummed guitar. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Glam! is by no means great but it strikes a chord. Glam! at Tate Liverpool: through a mirrorball darkly 2013-02-06T19:30:01Z

Written in five movements, Mr. Ruders’s riveting quartet opens with a series of quizzical chords that morph into hazy, scratchy harmonies, until the music breaks into a dancelike episode. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

During some episodes the instruments slither around as if in a contrapuntal free-for-all, or break into frenetic busyness, or bring time to a standstill through hazy, hovering chords. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z

Even so, the notion of eating fresh food communally — as both an artistic and gastronomic statement — struck a chord. | When Eating and Art Became One 2013-05-10T18:58:46Z

Are the stately tempo, string-section chords and Beatles chord progressions in “Citizen” from “Magical Mystery Tour” or from Electric Light Orchestra? Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

In the case of the “Appassionata,” what’s amazing is how Beethoven composed completely new music, but with a triad, a traditional chord of three sounds. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

It struck a chord, especially with those struggling for privacy in small apartments and those looking for a separation between work and living spaces. Tiny cloffices — workspaces in closets — are big, thanks to the pandemic 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Sure, it ends in Major, but only at the very last moment, and on a chord that glides softly and mysteriously away into silence — not unlike the final dissonance in Walker!” The art of programming a classical-music concert: Seattle Symphony brings together Dvorak, Walker, Szymanowski 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis went directly from this into the mysteriously placid opening of the sonata, with its theme that unfolds through eerily long-held chords. Music Review: Beethoven Devotee Makes Some Keyboard Time for Schubert 2011-05-01T22:22:48Z

You may begin to hear the clotted chords of the Spinal Tap song “Break Like the Wind” welling up in the background. Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

But then we hear the music, and her batty talk becomes touching: she, the others and we all become caught up in these astounding chords, rhythms and structures. Dance Review: ‘A Rite’ Riffs on Stravinsky at Chapel Hill, N.C. 2013-01-27T23:15:40Z

The eldest of the “boys” has now passed 40: The broad chords they played with such rich allure at the beginning of Op. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

"You just always have to come up with new melodies, new lyrics, new chord changes, new arrangements." After 'Blurred Lines' verdict, Brian Wilson talks Chuck Berry and 'Surfin' U.S.A.' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Comedian Joan Rivers rested comfortably on Friday at a New York hospital where she was admitted after she suffered cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during a vocal chord procedure, a spokeswoman said. Comedian Joan Rivers still resting comfortably at New York hospital 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Speaking of ends, that last line is another kind of test, the final chord, so to speak, of the symphony. What's the best way to test a novel before you read it? 2010-09-28T08:54:00Z

On “Learning” repeated, bright two-note bursts cut through morbid lower-register chords as Mr. Hadreas sang menacing lines in a hopeful way: “You will learn to mind me/And you will learn to survive/Me.” Music Review: Perfume Genius, Singing and Suffering at 92Y Tribeca 2010-07-22T20:58:00Z

Its final page indicates a chord in a low string range. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

It really is about the key and the baseline and the melody and the chords. Home cooking’s headed for a mash-up ‘watershed moment’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Halfway through, Mr. Monder, now up front, led the rest of the band in a sequence of heavy, stopped-up chords. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the middle ground there are more assertive bursts of intervals, chords and riffs; in the foreground are fleeting melodic bits, often played on solo strings and reinforced by short blasts from the brass. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

He sinks into tracks easily, and "Rolling Papers" shines mostly because of Tyler's production: airy piano chords and woozy drum programming. Domo Genesis and the unsung depth of Odd Future 2011-09-29T18:40:09Z

Now and then the piano rests, or wants to, on a series of placid chords. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

And then there was “People Like You,” by Mr. Anderson: a ballad with a rock backbeat and a semiclassical chord progression. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z

And Expressionist chromatic harmony was not for him: he cared too much about keeping chords, however thick, lucid and penetrating. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

But after a final question — “How did this happen?” — the entire last minute of the song is a series of edgeless, sustained chords: a refuge from sorrow or a glimpse of eternity. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Only a few other instrumental sounds appear: gauzy chords that often cut off abruptly, a pattering programmed high-hat, sporadic bass tones. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

The music of this first few minutes, generally speaking, was dark, alert and resonant with his thumb hitting the lower strings, letting them resound and roar against the chords. Music Review: Tomatito and His Flemenco Guitar at the Rose Theater 2014-03-17T21:42:01Z

Bittersweet chords disappear; Kahane reaches inside the piano to touch the strings, altering and muffling the sound. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Most of Emancipator’s music favored minor chords and medium tempos: simmering thoughtfully and steadily, not coercing. Music Review: Emancipator Plays at Highline Ballroom 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z

In “Let the Sunshine In,” she dances to Etta James’s “At Last,” and within a few chords a man gathers her into his arms from behind. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The album announces its austere palette from the start with “Rattlesnake”: just a bass line played on an unidentifiable, fuzz-edged instrument, Ms. Clark’s exposed voice and, soon, a funk beat punctuated by layered guitar chords. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z

Just learn these chords and you'll be able to back yourself up.' Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

In his lawsuit, Mars acknowledged occasionally playing the wrong chords on tour, but said it was because of a faulty in-ear monitor that made him unable to hear his guitar. Mötley Crüe Guitarist’s Lawsuit Says He Was Kicked Out 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

“Soon after the orchestra struck up those thundering, ominous organ chords, I found my expectations upended, my jaded armor melting away,” Isherwood wrote. ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s Longest-Running Show, to Close 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

There'll be stories of good times, hedonism and demonstrations of significant chord changes. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z

Adina, the heroine, was reading aloud from the story of Tristan when the orchestra abruptly abandoned Donizetti's delicate oom-pah-pah and lobbed in 19th-century music's most notorious hand grenade: Wagner's Tristan chord. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z

It ignores that the long continuum of pop revisits sonic approaches, melodies, beats and chord progressions time and again. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Newton's muted trumpet line hovers in the air like marsh gas; White's minor piano chords walk the listener towards the fateful spot; then, at last, there's Holiday. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z

For instance, in recitative-like passages of arias where vocal lines are punctuated by simple chords, he encouraged conversational delivery by the singers by relaxing the beat. Opera Review: No Beauty Goes Unexplored in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ 2014-02-17T16:05:54Z

Over longing piano chords and Thorn's beautiful shrug of a voice first single, Oh! New music: Tracey Thorn ? You Are A Lover (Clock Opera Remix) 2011-03-21T16:55:02Z

Joined by H.E.R., with their voices overlapping over a handful of syncopated, descending guitar chords, the singer is wounded and adrift. Jazmine Sullivan Ponders Love and Materialism on ‘Heaux Tales’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

There is a clear pulse, moving through a series of chords, each lasting just a few seconds. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The melancholic chord shifts of her guitar carry her voice naturally. Review: Prettyman spins gold from heartache 2012-10-03T15:27:13Z

It begins with deceptively calm piano chords that provoke nervous bleeps from the orchestra. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Perry's hit makers — Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Stargate — are scientists who spend their lives figuring out how to serve a few classic chord progressions a billion different, dazzling ways. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z

In Yes, he said, when the band was working on a song, members argued about which chords to play, which time signatures to use. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Whenever the violin turns dreamy, in the first movement, the music, led by the piano, bursts into pummeling patterns of punchy, chiseled descending chords. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

With a pair of simple rules it became relatively easy to play any of the major and minor chords. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

Murder, prison, drugs — “one day you here, but the next day you gone” — then those two main piano chords, C and F, as iconic as Gandhi. The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

The thing that naturally led to the show hitting a chord with people was that it was not destinations that were hard to get to or expensive. From "Happy Endings" to "FUBAR," Adam Pally's goal is to "find the unexpected" chaos in each role 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z

When he embraced modal composition starting in 1960, the common wisdom was that he had exhausted the potential of chord movement — there was just nothing else left to do. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

He sang the lyrics in an understated, almost monotone voice while his bebop-inflected piano chords churned underneath. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

When I strike a chord on the piano, more is heard than those notes alone. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

And unwittingly resurrect dormant desires in three women who haven’t quite gotten over his wistful rhymes and crooning guitar chords. ‘I Will Make You Mine’ Review: Three Times a Lady 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ax played every chord and figure with beautiful voicing, elegance and the concentration of a Zen master. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

They used deep-learning neural networks — computing systems that mimic the operations of a human brain — to analyze massive amounts of music data, identify patterns and generate drumbeats, melodies, chord sequences, lyrics and even vocals. Robots Can Make Music, but Can They Sing? 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Everything is an individual experience, but if your re-telling of it strikes no general chord, the fault is in your telling. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is all-out playing that holds nothing back, and Grimaud's white-hot intensity with all those parallel octaves and leaping chords is exciting to witness. Hélène Grimaud proves again that she does music her way 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z

Yet each of its three movements ends with a luminous chord offering conciliatory hope. Music Review: Trinity Choir Performs Works Based on the Book of Lamentations 2014-03-11T22:00:28Z

Bean's beat is a slick shot, minor and major 16th note piano chords zooming forward flanked by streaking/sizzling synths. Seattle clothes/rap duo Yuk strikes again with "Step it Up" 2010-06-23T20:46:00Z

It struck a chord: Mr. Haimes credits a successful 1984 Off Broadway production of the play, starring Anthony Hopkins, with saving the company at a time when it was in bankruptcy. Clive Owen, Suave and Roguish, on Making His Broadway Debut in ‘Old Times’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the fundamentals of bebop – with its fast-flying chord changes and often frenetic rhythms – are practically the antithesis of Rosenwinkel's work. The fresh sound of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel 2011-03-04T14:34:10Z

Fortunately for him, Mozart’s concerto places the burden on the right hand, which is tasked with runs and rhythmic complexity while the left often sets the mood with chords placed neatly on the beat. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

At Electric Daisy, machines generated an artificial paradise; flesh and blood was for dancing, and even the most tormented love song quickly resolved into triumphal chords and a booming beat. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z

Best of all was the Scherzo No. 4 in E, a playful piece with a coy theme that keeps breaking into bursts of light chords leaping up the keyboard and spiraling runs. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

It's hugely popular now; the chord sequence has been used by everyone from the Farm to Bob Marley. Readers recommend: classical songs – results 2012-06-14T09:21:59Z

What there is isn't really music, more like noise, haunting noise, a single note, perhaps a chord. The Fall; Skint – TV review 2013-05-13T21:01:01Z

He wasn’t calling for a revival of protest songs but for music filled with suggestion that “strikes a chord,” he said. ArtsBeat: Bob Geldof Says 'Hyperdemocracy' Is Overhyped 2011-03-17T18:57:12Z

He instead seeks out traditional instruments and low-end keyboards, records them and then builds melodies and chords from the tones they yield. Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

“The Hut on Fowl’s Legs,” which evokes the dwelling of the witch Baba Yaga, was a din of cascading octaves and brutal chords, played at hyper-drive. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z

The simple dramas enacted in “Myths and Hymns” are sometimes only tangentially connected to the lyrics, but the universal expressions of hope, fear, yearning and desire in the songs will strike deeply sounding chords. Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

But more often, he pulls his voice through meandering, patience-trying repetition over simple chord sequences, like work songs or chanteys, plucked on a guitar or plinked on a piano. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z

In its chugging rhythms, ornate curls and hymnlike chords, Mr. Dargel’s string writing amounted to considerably more than a translation of his customary milieu. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z

Can you describe the sound that you’re trying to create with the first chord of the minuet, after that pause? Beethoven’s Insane Beauty, According to a Star Pianist 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I’ll be your shelter,” Wyclef Jean promises, sometimes in a sweet falsetto and sometimes with hoarse vehemence, over mournful, syncopated guitar chords. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

“So much of it struck a chord with me from my own rehearsals and recording experiences,” Finn added. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The song gallops from the get-go, as Beck answers his own power chords with countermelodies high and low. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shepherd’s engrossing 12-minute work begins with the oboe playing a fidgety, twisting melody, prodded along by plunked sounds and curt chords in the strings. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

And too many tracks rely on the kind of repeating piano chords Ms. Blige definitively claimed in “No More Drama.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-20T23:13:07Z

The finale is a crazed rondo that builds to an explosion of leaping piano chords and slashing orchestral clusters. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z

“Compassion” is set upon a somewhat conventional set of chord changes, so we are able to clearly see Ornette’s poetic and harmonic logic guide his melodic intent as it would throughout his career. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Around 5:30 in the morning, the sun began to rise, gradually filling the room with light as the “Sleep” orchestra played obvious music to match it: an increasingly loud, radiant major chord. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

In no time Mr. Ax banished thoughts of winter as he played the stately, solemn opening chords of Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantaisie, an elusive late work, more fantasy than polonaise. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

Those lines return later in “Ghosteen Speaks,” with soothing major chords cascading between keyboards and wordless vocal harmonies; Cave makes the same promise in full voice. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Suddenly the phrase bad feminist was everywhere, and Gay managed to strike a chord on how complex intersectional feminism is. Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Eventually the choral part cedes the spotlight to dissonant fuzzy guitar chords and a steadily pounding drumbeat. Music Review: ?Passion de Jeanne d?Arc? at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-31T21:57:44Z

For most of the album, tempos are slow and deliberate, with only a few upbeat diversions; minor chords predominate. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z

As high school began, she learned chords on a guitar salvaged from the attic. Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

“The hedonistic, luxurious aspects of ‘Brideshead’ therefore struck a chord,” he added. ?Brideshead Revisited,? 30 Years Later 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

The same piano figure sketches the song’s other chords through the first verse. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

“At times in the ballads Will provides beautiful lush chords,” she says. Indian singer stretches tradition — and then some 2013-04-18T21:57:06Z

Then other layers materialized from two more guitars, bass and drums: overlapping arpeggios, brief melodic lines, drumbeats that tapped lightly and grew increasingly martial and, sooner or later, the frenetic shimmer of tremolo-strummed chords. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z

During more intense episodes, the instruments align into softly pungent chords or a bit of contrapuntal interplay. Review: A Whispered Opera Requests Your Close-Up Attention 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

The likes of Gluck, Mozart and Haydn created a whole new style based on, essentially, four major chords. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

The 10th, written in 1961, is a colorful mix of cluster chords, glissandos and dramatic dynamic contrasts. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z

Maybe it strikes a chord because this film is not vague. Bobcat Goldthwait: 'I'm not going to make a film with Justin Bieber' 2012-07-05T19:30:01Z

The mystic chords of memory reverberated from one side of the American divide to the other. Healing the Divisions in Our Country 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

She seems to weigh each lyric for dramatic effect, and Mr. Blake does much the same, sometimes voicing his chords as if scoring a film, with wryness and care. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z

The orchestra embraced the dissonances folded into the thick, descending chords. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z

Her pillowy chords at the close of the Second Concerto’s middle movement floated quietly into place, and she was shadowy but luminous before that piece’s ending romp. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

That's an attitude that strikes a chord with me and reminds me of Star Wars. JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse 2011-08-20T23:05:38Z

The set used the new material as a collection of expandable riffs developed through cool, reverb-soaked surf-rock phrases, power chords, scrabbling staccato and interludes of anything goes. Review: Yonatan Gat Shreds Protocol in a Rampant Concert 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The thing about this chord is that it has that sense of needing to move somewhere else. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The sound is dreamy and sincere, using very simple chord structures and lyrics. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

Then the music takes off — and how, with frenzied runs in each hand crisscrossing like strands of unhinged counterpoint, bursts of pummeling cluster chords leaping the length of the keyboard, and more. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Written after the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, “Long Time Gone” seethes with bitter frustration, from its ominous organ chords to Stephen Stills’s gnarled guitar fills. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

A recurring theme in the work’s great Adagio is built on three rising chords, repeated by different sections of the orchestra, and elsewhere in the movement, a musical gesture sprouts from repeating scale figures. Music Review: A Concept Is Minimal. The Works Sure Aren?t. 2011-07-16T00:02:19Z

It begins with a slippery tune, woodwinds dominant, as tart chords punch out accents and off beats. Review: U.S. Youth Orchestra Inspires a Chinese Counterpart 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

They — how shall I say it? — struck a chord. How to make a movie about van Gogh — the hard way. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

He begins “Paintings in D” with a chiming oscillation between chords then drifts into a passage that almost swings, the energy rising and the harmony falling. The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Next, the pianist plunged into the ferocious opening chords of the “Pathétique” with a commanding presence and solid control, while underlining the dialogue that pervades the Allegro section. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival

Metaphorical images of dead animals strike a chord with Jeffrey, who happens to be awaiting his own potentially dire medical prognosis. Rogue Machine's surprisingly sentimental drama from the co-writer of 'Birdman' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

In the slow middle piece, “Aubade,” melodic fragments are woven into strings of thick yet lucid chords with hints of Berg, Messiaen and Bill Evans. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

Her touch is strong and steady; she tosses off crunching chords and solid bass lines without any fuss. | Barbara Carroll: A Swinging, Sophisticated New York 2010-09-20T20:38:00Z

Like David Rawlings, Lage sometimes seems to have a different route in mind from the obvious one supplied by the chord changes. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Moreover, I'm guessing that its fixation on mixtapes, favourite albums and guilty pleasures struck a chord with the actor, who married the Klaxons keyboardist James Righton in May of last year. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music,” Sheeran said, in a video posted to Instagram. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bower handles them as if they’re the only sure things in his life: sequences of chords and then single notes played with vibrato. Eyehategod Maintains Hopelessness and Rage in Lyrics 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

I sat in the crowded, delightfully musty Long Island instrument shop Samuel Kolstein & Son and tried cello after cello, pushing them to extremes of tone with meaty chords and soft, high harmonics. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z

Presumably, it also touched — nay, twanged — chords in Mr. Weinstein, who is, after all, in the business of make-believe. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marcus’s style — brainy but fevered, as if the fate of Western society hung on a chord progression — is nearly impossible to mimic without sounding portentous and flatulent. Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z

It brimmed with drama, wrapped its power chords in layers of meaning. David Bowie was my North Star: My peace and escape was in his music, especially side two of “Hunky Dory” 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Stevens and Ross strike asymmetrical chords on every offbeat, setting Smith up for a coolly drifting solo. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

From guitars come open chords in strange tunings, scraping against the key; from keyboards come mellow polytonal clusters. Mark E. Smith Shows His Staying Power 2010-04-30T19:55:00Z

Noise, riffs and chords become loops that pulse and ricochet all around. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

The first begins with manic bursts of arpeggios that sweep up the keyboard and cascade down in crystalline riffs, finally breaking into a restless melodic line that unfurls amid rustling figurations and teeming chords. Review: A Teenage Virtuoso Prevails in a Liszt Endurance Test 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The opening string chords, he says, at once, must be, "how do you say, like a cedillo – like striking a match." Gustavo Dudamel electrifies young London musicians 2011-01-28T17:39:18Z

Even from the beginning, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote songs that slyly added unexpected chord changes and hints of ambivalence in the lyrics, sparking a listener’s reflexes and then evading them. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Gentle bossa nova chords accompany Reyez as she sings about murderous jealousy in “Intruders”; “Deaf” is a revenge taunt set to skidding, sliding, disorienting electronics. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

It begins with high scratching sounds and chords that blur tonal and atonal harmonies, yet sound uncannily precise. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z

Transitioning from “Body and Soul” to “Nature Boy,” he chimed a slow sequence of chords, interspersed with chasms of silence and eventually some trancelike singing. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z

TIME: When a show like Stranger Things strikes a chord, what does that say about what’s missing from culture? Stranger Things’ David Harbour on Playing a New Leading Man 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

In a quasi-hymn, with bedrock piano chords and a swelling choir, he surveys the devastation overseen by a “pharaoh” who keeps “a-preaching, but he never had a plan.” Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords, though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

They came up with 28 scales, all of which were basically substitutions for that dominant chord. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

But “We Come Right,” a slow waltz undulating among two and later three chords, stays poised and mysterious as it contemplates oblivion. The Playlist: Cardi B Isn’t Going Anywhere and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The earliest work that Wolf put out often leaned toward jazzy soul — which she attributes to her love of major and minor seventh chords — but with “Juno” she widened the scope. Remi Wolf Turns Bedroom Pop Into Hypercolored Explosions 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Still others will strike a chord with anyone who experiences the cadences of Black humor as familiar and familial. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

In “Jackie,” Larraín announces his intention to depart from literal truth from the very beginning of the film when we hear the eerie, disorienting chords of Mica Levi’s boldly abstract score. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

As the massed forces of the excellent New York Choral Artists invoked the Day of Judgment, shrieking piccolos pierced through the orchestral texture, and ear-shattering offbeats on the bass drum answered thundering orchestra chords. New York Philharmonic Performs Verdi’s Requiem 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

This era began with Coltrane’s decision to reorient Davis’s conception of “modal jazz” — that is, pieces that stay on a single chord for an entire section — to his own ends. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

Not particularly memorable, it uses simple piano chords and a soulful bass clarinet line to evoke the song “Outstanding” by the Gap Band, an American funk group. Music Review: Da Capo Players at Merkin Hall, Musing on Night 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z

Mr. Sheeran and his lawyers never denied that the chords in the two songs are similar, but called them commonplace musical building blocks that have turned up in dozens of other songs. Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

And there was something charming about watching this slender young man as he dropped his arms into bursts of thick chords. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

“I would learn two chords and go back and forth between them,” Mr. Crosby told the British music magazine Mojo. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

If we dismiss the books full of sheet music and chord changes, not much is left, especially compared with the critical output about Dylan or the Beatles. Reading Steely Dan: The lyrical genius that helped define a decade 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The surface of the score is pointillist, with ever-changing melodic phrases and individual chords that become their own events. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

When two strings are vibrating together a tritone apart, there are so many overtones that all you feel is tense, and the notes want to squish together into the home chord. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

He plowed across the piano with a titanic gospel-and-boogie left hand and a right hand that hammered giant chords and then gleefully splintered them. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

The 37-year-old pop star recently resumed his tour after canceling several dates because of bruised vocal chords. Timberlake pops in on patients at Texas children’s hospital 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

“The Life of Jesus” promises stability at first, steadily tolling a major chord. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The band halted, holding a tremolo chord, and Ms. Jones started to preach. Sharon Jones Headlines Daptone’s Night of Soul 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

And it’s slammed home in a production that’s minimal at first — an adamantly slow tempo, deep bass tones, viscous wah-ing synthesizer chords, some scattered percussion sounds — but grows monumental. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

There is riveting tension between the somberly elegiac vocal writing and the heaving piano part, thick with grating precisely textured chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z

The first movement begins with an Adagio introduction, flickering with piercing chords and sustained sonorities; this leads to a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

There is a fragile beauty to the searching chords that gradually grow more frantic and erratic. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z

It starts with a sudden chord that ignites a rising soft glissando, which bursts into every-which-way fidgety lines. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z

Throughout the show, Flea — relentless, brazen and locked in — powered the Chili Peppers with his unique blend of licks and chords. Review: Nostalgia powers dazzling Red Hot Chili Peppers show in Seattle 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

The band later described playing a gig like this: shortness of breath owing to the altitude, dry vocal chords, guitars detuning in the middle of a song and hands freezing up from the cold. Behind the music: Call of the Wild Outdoors 2011-04-08T13:10:06Z

The foreground may be folky guitar or simple, steady chords from a piano, but Mr. Stevens places them in a ghostly realm, his own voice overdubbed into a hovering choir, subtle auras of reverb. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The recording of “Pretty When You Cry” is built around the original writing session: chords from her band’s guitarist, Blake Stranathan, a fluctuating tempo and words she was making up on the spot. Lana Del Rey Still Stirs Things Up With ‘Ultraviolence’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Its brisk piano chords and buoyant beats created a kind of trampoline for the star to bounce off refrains of Olympic skill. Aretha Franklin’s 20 Essential Songs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

They struck a chord within me then and have remained a guiding principle in my work. In His Own Words: David Greenspan, Actor and Playwright 2010-03-26T16:28:00Z

The opening of his Piano Sonata is a good example, where the theme, stated in stirring, spare chords, stops for a moment on what may seem a harsh harmony. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes, it was, ‘Hey, Lin, what about this chord here, that bass line there?’ Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

“We’re going to try to strike those universal chords,” he said. LeBron Fandom, and the Making of a Friendship in ‘King James’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The first half of the program also included Kreisler’s arrangement of Corelli’s Sonata “La Follia,” its Baroque character romanticized with robust piano chords and its trills played with languid elegance by Mr. Beilman. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

In “April,” vocals overlap and multiply into cascading chords while unexpected sounds wink into earshot behind the guitar. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

I recently attempted a knockoff recipe, and while it was quite good in its own right, it didn't strike that Proustian chord of recognition in my heart. Nostalgic for Kudos? Here's a copycat version of the lunchbox favorite 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

There’s all these strumming power chords that really, really connected. The Day Prince’s Guitar Wept the Loudest 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The group knows its way around a heavy-metal riff but doesn’t chase after fusion labyrinths or prog-rock fantasias, beyond an occasional chord progression, like the one in “Pilgrims”, a highlight of the first half. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z

Tron features three chords; the next track, Visions of Load, dispenses with such extraneous fripperies and has only two. New band of the day - Gnod (No 1,439) 2013-01-25T15:06:00Z

And yet the chords aren’t dissonant, and the relationship between them is hardly radical. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

“Extenso,” despite what its title implies, works with more limited materials; chords waft and curl back on themselves, slowly drifting through instruments and registers. Classical Recordings: Pascal Dusapin?s Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-05-13T14:41:00Z

The other half responds with moaning chords and grating slides. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

When chords blur together it becomes almost impossible to make sense of harmonic progression. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z

Either way, it’s a dance party, and the guitar scrubbing away at complex chords over the neo-disco beat belongs to the disco and dance-pop wizard Nile Rodgers. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

"It hit a chord," he said, "and it resonates still." Cameron Crowe revisits "Say Anything" 2011-08-31T20:32:00Z

The cheers rang loud and long for Joey Alexander after he had played his last delicate piano chord in a recent sold-out set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

A little scratchy riff, again ending on an unresolved chord. Old music: REM – Feeling Gravity's Pull 2012-11-15T12:31:00Z

Of a passage in “Passion,” Sondheim says that two chords “represent the entire progression” of the sequence. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

“It has introspection. And it flows in a sensual way, and that’s what those chords did.” Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

As the opening scene begins, needling brass riffs protrude over sputtering clusters of hard-edged chords. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The resulting works, with their Dada and Surrealist overtones, struck a chord and curators began visiting her studio in the gallery basement. Putting Memories to New Use 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

In the border region between Germany and the Czech Republic — or Saxony and Bohemia in earlier times — where this grim scene unfolds, allusions to ruinous battle imagery strike multiple chords. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nézet-Séguin drew slashing chords and searing intensity from the orchestra. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z

Elegant, long cello lines float above softly swirling pools of organ chords. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Where thundering chords denoting burning hatred and the throes of spiritual despair are indicated, we hear instead the thinner textures of a piano sonata, albeit one liberally laced with dissonance. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z

Like the Who's Keith Moon, Holub lives and breathes each beat, break and power chord, grinning and goofing with unselfconscious delight. Led Bib ? review 2011-03-02T19:39:00Z

The piece, written from the perspective of a hyper-enthusiastic fan of autumnal home decor, struck a chord with readers: a decade later, it’s still the site’s second most-read piece. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

His range, from minimalist melody lines, through choppy Hendrixian chord voicings all the way up to 11 with wailing metal tinged blues, gives him the edge over many in the list. Chilis star is modern guitar hero 2010-04-09T18:02:00Z

Often the sustained tails of these chords took on lives of their own as if they were separate elements, unrelated to the fortissimo bursts from which they emerged. Music Review: Steven Beck at Bargemusic in Here and Now Series - Review 2012-01-06T22:54:07Z

Her spinal chord was constricted, and she needed small bone grafts inserted to widen the channel. The Unlikely Comeback of the ‘Pill-Popping Dermatologist’ 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

Gil told me once, the only reason a chord will sound wrong is with the next chord. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

Technically speaking, the barbershop chord is a flatted seventh, first used among African-American gospel groups in the early 20th century. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z