Even the memory of its sustained chord made Arithon's voice grate like gravel.

When she could not go on, their singing trailed off into a long, sustained chord, a dirge for the dead.

The work is divided into four phases, connected by sustained chords during which the performers change positions in the hall.

At first it was a string ensemble, brooding over sustained chords.

Musical voyage starts on a steady sustained chord which appears throughout the piece.

It is introduced at the beginning over a sustained chord of these same notes.

During a sustained chord the internal dynamics may change as different instruments enter or fade away.

A powerful melodic line on the top, with simple chords, sustained or detached, below it.

Angels were singing a single sustained chord, in a harmony almost too perfect to be borne.

Soon it grew to a sustained chord, complete with percussion.