But the audience of one had done that and was fascinated by the dissonances and strange chords.

At once strange chords filled the room - an awful, hollow sound, like the sound of eternal suffering.

Mr. Terrasson isn't afraid of strange chords and unusual juxtapositions; he traffics in surprise.

Around her, strange chords were reverberating in a pattern of polyphony she couldn't quite grasp.

Don Juan's explanation had touched a strange chord in me.

A musician sat in a corner, playing strange, plangent chords on a stringed metallic box.

He used it, but made changes to it, adding dissonant notes and strange chords.

Almost at the same time Stephanie heard the sound of Japanese music, strange dissonant chords plucked on a lyre-like instrument.

'Climb aboard, Jim,' said a voice which struck a strange chord in Pooley's rapidly numbing brain.

The Arendish musicians, their eyes filled with tears, took up those strange antique chords to recreate a melody that had not been heard in thousands of years.