The gifted had begun to apply the basic rules of harmony to their analysis; the others were able to count the steps and to recognise major and minor.
A similar case occurs with the basic notions of harmony, which, after Kepler, could be reduced to geometry.
Jim also taught them a basic idea of harmony between instruments, and Paul credits Jim's tuition as being helpful when later singing harmonies with Lennon.
This includes a basic understanding of harmony, melody, and rhythm.
Every instrument is, in one way or another, playing with the simple interval of the perfect fifth — the basic building block of harmony — but at the climax the lines coalesce into roaring dissonances, with all twelve notes of the chromatic scale sounding together.
Let them teach the jazz basics of chords and harmony; it will carry over into peaceful politics.
Composing fugues, for example – which has been done from the Baroque to the modern era – involves taking a small melodic idea and applying permutations and rules that extend, develop and interweave it in overlapping voices, while preserving some basic and essential rules of harmony.
They accepted the necessity of maintaining defense but postulated the existence of a basic harmony of interests among states, which would minimize the incidence of wars.
Throughout the common practice period dissonances were continually added to the basic harmonic language, so that the range of harmony and use of dissonance in late 19th-century music had expanded considerably beyond that of the early 17th century.
Sugarland's songs usually follow the country-rock basics of the Eagles: midtempo rock with harmony choruses, all neatly in place.
