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:
a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together; or figuratively in the expression "struck a cord" to mean that someone's idea or feeling was in harmony with another or others