chordal

[ kawr-dl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, or resembling a chord.
of or relating to music that is marked principally by vertical harmonic movement rather than by linear polyphony.

Origin of chordal¹

First recorded in 1610–20; chord ² + -al ¹

In Elasmobranchii the chordal sheath is weak and the skeletogenous layer strong.

In Amphioxus the notochord is immediately surrounded by a structureless cuticular layer, the chordal sheath.

The notochord remains permanently unconstricted and is enclosed in a chordal sheath, external to which is the skeletogenous layer.

Now, in music there are two kinds of harmony, simultaneous and consecutive—chordal harmony and melody.

Of the divine spheral music, the one is the chordal harmony, the other the consecutive harmony or melody.

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