1 a straight line that joins the ends of an arc (= a curved line that forms part of a circle)
2 three or more musical notes played at the same time
3 a line segment (= part) whose end points are points on a circle
Perhaps the guilty one did not dare to leave Atlanta, for the chimes sang in minor chords on several nights after.
Then there must be a thorough drill in scales, arpeggios, chords, and a variety of finger exercises, before any kind of pieces are taken up.
Wistful almost is the slow vanishing until the last chords come like the breaking of a fairy trance.
Event generators are used to represent the common structures of the musical vocabulary such as chords, ostinati, or compositional algorithms.
Perhaps to save space, harmonies are often notated as chords with a noncommittal arpeggio sign rather than expressed as detailed figurations.
The special quality of these chords is not so much that they offer a variety of meanings between which it is difficult to choose.