This is a noteworthy point in our discussion on planning since social cohesion should not be intended naively as a steady state of "harmony", but rather as a precarious and dynamic result of conflicts and negotiations.
He's fond of mellow harmonies, a steady beat and catchy melodies, and everyone — the five band members and the dancers Megan Byrne and Jessica Cook — is part of the choreographic fabric.
During the extended final episode, the music enters a mystical realm with soft, eerily sustained harmonies over a steady low drone.
He comes up with bleakly comic music -- all shifting keys and insinuating harmonies over a steady one-two pulse -- for "Song of Black Max," a sly tale, told to Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Bolcom by their friend Willem de Kooning, about an enticingly nefarious character who roamed a Rotterdam neighborhood when de Kooning was a child.
The result – The Whole Earth Dances – is a work that begins abrasively but gradually acquires a sense of vision through the intricate interweaving of lyrical lines and a steady infusion of super-enriched, Messiaen-like harmony.
Two: the music should have a steady harmonic rhythm (meaning that the chords -- the harmonies -- change with a high degree of regularity).
Recorded in a matter of weeks rather than months, with 11 songs totaling less than 35 minutes, it's a steady blast of short, sharp rockers, a breathless tumble of hooks and harmonies.
Mr. Glasper's way has to do with both looseness and intricacy: a loose frame and intricate, slip-and-slide languages of harmony and especially rhythm, built up through years of experimenting with a steady crew.
When the pace changes to a steady 12/8 pulse, the backing singers come to the fore with strong close harmonies - like doo-wop refracted back into central Africa.
We have a steady relationship.
And a steady flow continues.
