Dumarest heard the scuff of boots in the passage, a sudden sonorous chord, a muffled curse in Eglantine's voice.

The symphony's nickname is derived from the sudden loud chord played by the entire orchestra in the second movement.

Picking with his thumb, Mr. Ulmer would fling a short phrase across the beat, play fast chromatic zigzags, pause, then rake a sharp, sudden chord on an off-beat.

Granted, it was thrilling to hear Beethoven's sudden, monumental chords spring forth from a background of utter silence.

With a sudden, jangling chord, all the rocks around them began emitting music again.

They call for sudden, explosive, precise chords and for thickly voiced ensembles, and they regularly push the trumpets up into their high registers.

Some 'trade-marks', such as a sudden explosive final chord following a quiet passage, were established at an early stage.

The song finished with a sudden chord, and the lights cut abruptly.

New Crobuzon night had always been a chaos of jarring beats and sudden violent chords.

The sudden and unwelcome major chord that ends this piece indicates less a confident conclusion than a composer who did not know what else to do and simply stopped.