About three quarters of the way through the first movement the music climbs to a point of high tension, and at that moment a chord rings out: it fixes something essential about the piece ...
Chords are played when the guitarist holds their fingers down on more than one individual string to change its length, which in turn changes the frequency of the vibration created - in other words, it ...
A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor key ends with a major chord instead of the expected minor. This effect is ...