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broken chord

noun

, Music.


broken chord

noun

  1. music a chord played as an arpeggio
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The music ended with a broken chord, and he looked up—to find his friend gazing at him with ineffable happiness.

Avoid broken-chord effects, that is, do not use more than three tones belonging to the same chord in succession.

This would be something startling on drum and cymbals, with, on 'cello, a broken chord.

At the outset we see the leading motive, which consists of an ascending broken chord twice repeated.

Like the moan of a broken chord wails the thought of departure.

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