Also, most Western pieces of music have chord progressions to which the melody conforms.
They also pluck a deep chord in our psyche, because they reduce life to our most fundamental needs.
Maybe because English is also a second language for me, Saturday’s event on the importance of translation struck a particularly resonant chord.
The message implied in the logo of Shanghai world expo is that the Chinese people wish to host an exposition of global and multicultural convergence. That strikes a responsive chord in the world.
Love is a chord in life, not a solo.
In guitar you can strum a chord and you've got the sound.
The universe provided a unique, if somewhat imperfect, concert hall for what may have been creation's opening chord, Whittle said.
Africa is not blessed with an abundance of football world champions and the invitation to Vieira, the Senegal-born France midfielder who helped win the trophy in 1998, struck a symbolic chord.
There are two naturals in this chord.
This poem has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its readers.
He is an intensely emotional preacher, whose tearful sermons seem to strike a deep chord in his listeners; but the movement he heads is remarkably pragmatic and businesslike.
Yet, although most people's voices don't seem to strike a chord one way or the other, research has shown that a person's voice can influence whether others find him alluring or unattractive.
She followed "Heidi" with several plays, witty and topical, but had yet to strike another chord.
In the ''Yunnan Garden Gathering'' poem, Manicam notes wryly that the line ''Once lush forests'' being reduced to firewood would strike a chord in the heart of the environmentalist and nature lover.
For example, learning to play the guitar, learn how to press down a chord pattern with your fingers first without even trying to strum the chord.
That may not sound like revolutionary parenting advice, but as Yin Jianli, the book's author has found, it has struck a chord with many Chinese parents as just that.
Jazz musicians do not follow a set piece of music note by note, but make up melodies and chord changes as they play.
The last movement forced a degree of awed concentration out of the listeners, finding release only with the final chord.
The amount of time that each chord is holding is getting shorter and shorter and shorter as we drive into that cadence.
He is replacing the broken chord of his violin.
Her speech struck a deep chord in my heart.
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