Sentence examples for a straightforward harmony from inspiring English sources
"Sometimes the challenge is to blend complex meandering in four parts, but when you have a straightforward harmony (such as the "Mass in G"), which is melodically straightforward, a choral group has got to sound like one voice, a unified group," Livesey said.
His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality, freshness, and straightforward harmonies.
What Lady Antebellum offered at the Empire was a straightforward package of tight harmonies, mainly sung by Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott (third member Dave Haywood primarily stuck to guitar and piano), and grade-A playing by a backing band assembled from all over the American south.
In each movement, Palestrina tended to use both imitative polyphonic textures and homophonic ones; in the latter he combined a straightforward single melody with an accompanying harmony.
On her solo albums, Bjork has frequently abandoned a straightforward beat, replacing it with sustained harmonies or electronic stutters and flickers (though thumping remixes have kept her songs in clubs).
In Ms. Clyne's "Shadow of the Words," built around a straightforward, recorded reading of Baudelaire's "Harmonies du Soir" (the electronic track also includes a hefty, rumbling bass line), the quartet writing is atmospheric and flexible, with acerbic, raucous stretches morphing into surprisingly traditional passages, including a lilting waltz.
Polyphony (simultaneous melodic lines), monophony (melody without harmony), and rhythm are explored in a straightforward manner in his Polifonica-monodia-ritmica for seven instruments (1951).
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