---

• a  relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords
  chordal assonance in modern music
  chordal rather than contrapuntal music

• Instead, it sustained for page after page a single chordal theme, varied only with starkly primitive rhythm in the orchestra and percussion-punctuated declamation by the singers.
• A frustrated orchestral composer, he favored great chordal eruptions of thick, textured sound.
• He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexationsan 80-second chordal theme of only 180 notes in 52 beats.

News & Articles

---

• Announcement: BluesGuitar.com Releases “Chordal Soloing Over a G Blues Progression - Blues Guitar Lesson”
  In this blues guitar lesson sample video, now available on YouTube.com, Jon MacLennan teaches how to do chordal soloing over a G blues. (PRWeb April 18, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/04/prweb11776812.htm
  April 18, 2014 - PRWeb

Quotes

---

• Henry Threadgill in NPR
  It's not chordal-based,Threadgill says. "It's contrapuntal music - everyone is playing these different little melodies and phrases, you know. Harmony happens, but the harmony is incidental to the counterpoint chatter."
• Reggie Workman in All About Jazz
  Workman says Allen's "tasteful and intellectual approach" made her the most logical choice for a "musical conversation with a chordal instrumentalist who also has a unique approach to improvisation and composition. Being deeply rooted in a...
• Lee Konitz in San Jose Mercury News
  That trio situation without a chordal instrument allows me to stretch out a little more,Konitz said from his apartment in New York City. "Performing with just bass and drums is a special situation. I let myself play a"