Word: chordingly
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...intermediate stage, musicians combine both the conscious and the unconscious, which includes reading notes and playing with scales and chord outlines...
Striking a Chord...
...music itself is fascinating and intricate. Because of the short strings of the lute cannot sustain the notes for very long, a style was developed in France known as style brise which works by breaking up the notes of a chord instead of playing them in unison. The result is music that is not played but poured. The notes cascade from the strings. chords stretching out, developing and coming back together, voices rippling out against each other, chasing up and down across the bass tones, Lute repertoire covers a wide stylistic range, made up largely of pieces inspired by country...
Various and complex tunings were used to achieve different tonal effects, and the move from the Renaissance style to the Baroque was distinctly audible over the course of the concert. It is this that is most interesting in the lute music: its ceaseless movement from one chord to the next, from one style to another. It is music never satisfied with itself, never stationary: It is dynamic and as intellectually satisfying as it is aesthetically pleasing...
...many law schoolers, prospective doctors and I-bankers does Harvard dispatch to the larger world every year? Enough. How many songwriters, singers, musicians and people pushed by chord colors into less chartered territories. You don't even know. But Wednesday night at Club Passim show-cased and marked out for future attention three out-standing singing and songwriting talents...