The Army Goes Rolling Along - The Sun Harbors Chorus

CHORD SOUND - A sound that is part of a chord. A. z. are all the sounds of any harmony, which can be arranged in thirds - DOS. sound, third, fifth, seventh and nona (undecime and the following tertz stratifications violating the functional definiteness of the chord were used only as an exception). A. z. can appear in conditions of harmonious and melodic configuration. At the end of 19 - beginning. 20th centuries some composers tried to replace the tertz principle of constructing a chord. otherwise. In this case, the understanding of A. z. changes accordingly. So, in the system of building chords by quarts, the chord sounds are the sounds of harmony, which can be arranged in quarts. In the absence of a single principle for constructing chords, the difference between chord and non-chord sounds becomes conditional. Lit. see at art. Chord.