FamousPsalms ChordSymphony of Psalms, 1930 · Igor Stravinsky
The very first sound of the first movement: a short, loud, accented chord from the orchestra that returns throughout the movement
Stravinsky opens his Symphony of Psalms with a single short bark from the orchestra: an ordinary E minor chord, but spread out in a very strange way. The note G (the minor third) is doubled again and again across four octaves, while E and B appear only at the very top and bottom, so the chord sounds hollow and bright at once. The guitar shape keeps a low E with Gs piled above it and B in between.
Also called Stravinsky's barking E minor, Symphony of Psalms chord
Sources: Psalms chord (Wikipedia) · Arthur Berger, 'Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky', Perspectives of New Music 2/1 (1963), p. 33 · William W. Austin, Music in the 20th Century (1966), p. 334 · Wilfrid Mellers, '1930: Symphony of Psalms', Tempo 97 (1971)