chordal

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Recent Examples of chordal Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020 It can be strummed, plucked, played for chordal accompaniment or virtuosic runs. John Adamian, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019 Leven effortlessly pivoted back and forth between cozying up to Stepner’s line and joining the lower strings’ strong chordal figures, adding a soloistic glimmer on occasion. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chordal
Adjective
  • The harmonic effort has earned the SNL alumna an Emmy nomination, alongside song co-writers Greenbaum and Sean Douglas.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
  • His own timbre of a voice mixes well with his multiple harmonic partners and the various goofy turns he is tasked with implementing.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Lisa continued the tonal theme with matching lipstick and plenty of pink sapphires.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Founded in 1991 by Christophe Lemaire, the label has become known for its oversized proportions, tonal palettes and uncompromising materials.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bird will further celebrate the anniversary of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs with a series of orchestral shows.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The piece is scored for two string groups, timpani, and piano—an instrument that often gives a metallic bite to Martinů’s orchestral textures.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The rhythmic beat takes us on a love story full of sensuality, something that these Colombian and Colombian-Mexican groups handle perfectly.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This rhythmic driving can create new forms of order that are impossible to achieve in equilibrium, revealing phenomena beyond the reach of conventional phases of matter.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Zivix reports that its algorithms can register complex playing techniques like polyphonic bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping and muting.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024

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“Chordal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chordal. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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