Chord (music)

Chord, music


 * "A chord is by no means an agglomeration of intervals. It is a new unit which, although dependent on the formative power of the single interval, is felt as being self-existent and as giving to the constituent intervals meanings and functions which they otherwise would not have."
 * Paul Hindemith (1952: 72). A Composer's World. Cambridge, Mass.


 * Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then, But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen.
 * Adelaide Anne Procter, Lost Chord. (As set to music, 5th line reads, "I know not what I was playing.").


 * [ Tonality is] the special meaning [functions] that chords receive through their relationship to a fundamental sonority, the tonic triad.
 * Hugo Riemann, cited in Gurlitt, W. (1950). "Hugo Riemann (1849-1919)".