noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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Such is the skill of the rhythmic pacing however, that the final chord seemed poised to continue.
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Away to the high plains rolling in waves to the rising final chord of the Rocky Mountains!
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The phrase ends on a final ambiguous chord - B, E, B.
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Debuting conductor Jiri Kout exerted considerable control over the 95-member Opera Orchestra, though the final chords were poorly spaced.
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Francie made a final plangent chord and took the fiddle from under his chin.
major
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An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault.
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But are not, after all, the three major chords in the last movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony unbelievably simple?
minor
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This represents the very tight, close intervals of the minor chords .
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I could hear the minor chords .
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But there's a great many major, minor and diminished chords in T-Ride's music that have to sound right.
responsive
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Obviously Nunn had struck a responsive chord .
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Truman had struck a responsive chord with the majority of his countrymen.
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In a region where infant mortality is high, the argument struck a responsive chord .
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There were even a few concessions to the responsive chords the Republicans struck in the 1994 congressional elections.
vocal
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The oscilloscope graph of both voices was flattened in the lower register: tension was restricting the movement of their vocal chords .
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The vocal chords are also less flexible, so that our voices change.
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But they possess no vocal chords as man and other mammals do.
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Humanoid bipeds shaped their vocal chords to reproduce the noises they heard about them.
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The Lead Vocalist, who had just reconnected his vocal chords , disconnected them again.
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The plaintiff claimed damage to the vocal chords as a result of the operation.
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Terror had dried and paralysed his vocal chords .
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Match your vocal chords to the best singing bird in the world, the Water Slagger.
■ NOUN
change
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Example 2 deals with an approach to playing static double stops over chord changes .
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All his chord changes are very original and his melodies are.
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This information will enable you to connect lines which flow freely and melodically between all chord changes .
progression
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An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault.
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The score trades in the familiar chord progressions , sticky rhythmic motives and unremitting polyphony.
shape
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For this assignment the need for our five associated chord shapes became very clear.
■ VERB
strike
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This certainly strikes a personal chord with me.
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Basically, it's something that strikes a chord in the heart.
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His declarations have struck a chord on both sides of the House.
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Obviously, their messages have struck a chord among voters in Arizona and New Hampshire.
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The Sony platform has struck a strong chord among normally highly conservative publishing organisations.
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One young man of John's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him.
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Lebed struck a resounding chord with voters by campaigning as the anti-corruption and anti-crime candidate.
touch
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And, if I prefer House to Garden, it is because it both touches deeper chords and garners even greater laughs.
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Clearly, what they do touches a chord in more than a few listeners.
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Somewhere, he touched a chord in his son.
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The book touches a highly sensitive chord .
use
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Naturally, one can use such counter-parallelisms in many other ways, using more dissonant-type chords , or a more slender texture.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strike a chord
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A specific element which has struck a chord with community educators is the encouragement to involve parents.
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Alison's story is extreme, but many of the things she says will strike a chord with other girls.
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Basically, it's something that strikes a chord in the heart.
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For a nostalgia that still strikes a chord today, here he is.
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I believe that most of the incidents that I have described will strike a chord with the vast majority of black people.
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Obviously, their messages have struck a chord among voters in Arizona and New Hampshire.
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The plight of Gerald McClellan struck a chord in Jones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a region where infant mortality is high, the argument struck a responsive chord .
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In contrast, he provided passages of descending chords for Kostchei.
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In writing chords for the harp, the two hands should be kept close together, and the chords well filled in.
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Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
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Our examples have been confined to simple homophonic chords in which all the notes sound together.
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The difference between the pairs is whether or not the vocal chords are used in making the sound or not.
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This struck a deep chord with me, and I wish we could sit and talk about it.