chord : Idioms & Phrases

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Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords

  • . See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal.
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Accidental chords

  • (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony.
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Chord of an arch

  • . See Illust. of Arch.
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Chord of curvature

  • a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.
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Common chord

  • noun a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones
    triad.
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  • (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth.
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Consecutive chords

  • (Mus.), chords of the same kind suceeding one another without interruption.
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Dominant chord

  • (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.
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Equivocal chord

  • (Mus.), a chord which can be resolved into several distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh.
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Fundamental chord

  • (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root.
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Irrelative chords

  • (Mus.), those having no common tone.
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Perfect chord

  • (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.
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Primitive chord

  • (Mus.), that chord, the lowest note of which is of the same literal denomination as the fundamental base of the harmony; opposed to derivative. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
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Scale of chords

  • a graduated scale on which are given the lengths of the chords of arcs from 0° to 90° in a circle of given radius, used in measuring given angles and in plotting angles of given numbers of degrees.
  • . See Scale.
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seventh chord

  • noun a triad with a seventh added
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strike a chord

  • verb create an emotional response
    • The music struck a chord with the listeners
  • verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
    strike a note; hit home; strike home.
    • I hope this message hits home!
  • verb evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
    strike a chord.
    • this writer strikes a chord with young women
    • The storyteller touched a chord
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Supplementary chords

  • (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.
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touch a chord

  • verb evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
    strike a chord.
    • this writer strikes a chord with young women
    • The storyteller touched a chord
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Vocal cords ∨ chords

  • . (Anat.) See Larynx, and the Note under Voice, n., 1.
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