Calming Chord

The expanse of sound spans your entire life, reaching into every hidden crevasse of emotion and experience inside of you. Don't move or speak lest you corrupt this perfect moment. A moment beyond the reach of time or worry, where everything is even and peaceful, just as you have always known it should be. A chord in music is any harmonic set of two–three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. These need not actually be played together: arpeggios and broken chords may for many practical and theoretical purposes be understood as chords. Chords and sequences of chords are frequently used in modern western, west African and Oceanian music, whereas they are absent from the music of many other parts of the world. The most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: further notes may be added to give seventh chords, extended chords, or added tone chords. The most common chords are the major and minor triads and then the augmented and diminished triads. The English word "chord" derives from Middle English "cord", a shortening of "accord" in the original sense of "agreement" and later "harmonious sound". Early Christian hymns featured organum (which used the simultaneous perfect intervals of a fourth, a fifth, and an octave), with chord progressions and harmony an incidental result of the emphasis on melodic lines during the medieval and then Renaissance (15-17th centuries).