Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony (1915) "starts and ends with the setting sun-a B flat minor chord cluster slowly built down."

George Adams, a tenor saxophonist, has gospel passion, and Don Pullen has developed a style that ranges from dancing, percussive chord clusters to spare, straight-ahead single-note solos.

For Messiaen's music is both unforgiving (with brutal, assaultive chord clusters) and at the same time quite ready to draw listeners to redemptive, triumphant conclusions with simple major triads.

Instead, he savors Bruckner's arching lines and brooding chord clusters.

In the description of scholar Gordon Rumson, Wild Men's Dance is a "work of vehement, unruly rhythm, compounded of dense chord clusters...and brutal accents.

Playing on a fortepiano reproduction, Miss Odiaga reminds us that the chord clusters that today can sound clotted on the modern Steinway are perfectly calculated for the earlier instrument.

Recorded in the Netherlands in August 1980, Earth Beams features screeching solos from Adams and "tightly wound chord clusters" from Pullen.

Salsa pianists have a longstanding affinity for jazz, but Eddie Palmieri may well be the jazziest and most experimental of them all, plunging into modal harmonies and burly, splashing chord clusters.

There were otherwise many stock effects strung together to evoke a mood, among them the quiet chord clusters that open the second section and the darkly dissonant melodic fragments Ms. Ran gave occasionally to the pianist.

Now complex panoramic chord clusters enveloped the arrangements in an almost overwhelming evocation of the sky and all that happens in and under it.