Both Uses of
chord
in
The Fountainhead
- Music, he thought, the promise of the music he had invoked, the sense of it made real—there it was before his eyes—he did not see it—he heard it in chords—he thought that there was a common language of thought, sight and sound—was it mathematics?†
Chpt 4.1
- So that it seemed as if the slow rhythm of the rising fields had been picked up, stressed, accelerated and broken into the staccato chords of the finale.†
Chpt 4.9 *
Definition:
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(chord as in: piano chord) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together