How To Use Harmonically In A Sentence
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I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
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The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
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So Mr. Williams fashioned a work that evokes the melancholic, calmly affirming, harmonically open-hearted world of Copland.
A New Williams Work for a Momentous Occasion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Since, however, we have (from the standpoint of the piano keyboard) five pairs of tones [19] which are enharmonically the same, it may readily be seen that the chromatic scale might be notated in all sorts of fashions, and this is in fact the real status of the matter, there being no one method uniformly agreed upon by composers.
Music Notation and Terminology
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There's everything here from simple, sometimes amusing pieces, to more dauntingly experimental and harmonically challenging works.
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Harmonically, the added notes are needed to provide a major or minor triad for each note of the diatonic scale.
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The repetition of the original words at the close of the first stanza returns to the original music, but modulates to E minor, the D s of which shift enharmonically to E (flat).
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Dark harmonically and orchestrally, unfortunately it fails to develop a good musical idea into a more evolved work.
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The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
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It was simply a case of a middle piece in the major key of the same tonic, with the notation changed enharmonically for the sake of simplicity, the key of D-flat being, for the majority of players, easier to read than that of C-sharp major.
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Now, all of a sudden, the idea of music that is harmonically more adventurous and rhythmically jazzier made everyone seem to think that the change back was a good idea.
Mike Ragogna: From Graceland To A Galaxy To Further Explorations: Chatting With Jeff Lorber And Eddie Gomez, Plus Paul Simon's Classic Turns 25
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Schweizer is a harmonically adventurous ballad player, a inventive explorer of under-the-lid strings sounds and percussive effects, and she plays Jimmy Giuffre's iconic cool-jazz groover The Train and the River with a freewheeling relish.
Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review
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Harmonically the second half of the score tends to be built on rich static chords and pedal notes, which balance the structure after the energetic first half.
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The intervals are enharmonically the same as those of the chord in the first bar of Prelude -- F, A flat, C flat, E flat, = F, G sharp, B, D sharp -- but the treatment and surroundings are very different.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
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These two meditations are based on ‘modes of limited transposition’, chromatic modes, used harmonically, whose strange colours derive from the limited number of possible transpositions.
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E [sharp] and F are enharmonically the same, as are also C [flat] and B,
Music Notation and Terminology
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He thought of himself as ‘a classicist structurally, a romantic emotionally and a modernist harmonically’.
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Glissando passages in chords of the seventh and ninth, enharmonically obtained, are much more common, and as the above reservations do not apply, every dynamic shade of tone is possible.
Principles of orchestration
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I've always loved Debussy for this refined, very velvety sonic palette, harmonically and timbrally.
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He is very modern in his harmonies, the favorite colors on his palette being the warmer keys, which are constantly blended enharmonically.
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harmonically interesting piece
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Saying that Buxtehude is more harmonically adventurous than Bach is a bit of a non sequitur; like saying what the -?
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
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Her harmonically exploratory, third movement cadenza sounded freshly composed on the spot, and her dreamy, exotically pitch-bent treatment of the concerto's slow movement (against very Middle Eastern-sounding color from the droning bass and skittering arpeggios on the lutes) proved an atmospheric delight.
English Concert at Library of Congress
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Just as the pitches are enharmonically related, intervals that contain the same number of half-steps are referred to as enharmonically equivalent intervals.
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Harmonically, it's as if a weight lifter jerked 500 pounds and put it down in exactly the same spot.
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Page view page image: necessary to start enharmonically from the keys of B, F sharp or C sharp, major.
Principles of orchestration
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Largo has its Radiohead cover tune ( "Paranoid Android") all right, but this time Mr. Mehldau's choices serve his larger project of hammering out an original jazz-pop fusional language, harmonically spare, percussive and beautiful in its rather severe way.
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The final measure vividly transmutes the symphony's opening theme (full of upward fourths) to an idea both melodic and harmonically cadential and thus brings the work to a great, substantial close.
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For this reason, certain modulations from one key to another one, adjacent to it can only be accomplished enharmonically.
Principles of orchestration
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Thus we may say that F sharp and G flat (on keyboard instruments at least) are enharmonically the same.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The sheer volume of sounds and flavors orgiastically mix harmonically in this album.
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* Trombone: A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet family, the only wind instrument possessing a complete chromatic scale enharmonically true, like the human voice or the violin, and hence very valuable in the orchestra.
God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
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The sitar also has resonator strings that vibrate harmonically with the main strings and adds sustain to the main strings by the same principle, aka feedback.
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For example, the key of B, with five sharps, is enharmonically equivalent to the key of Có, with 7 flats.
