"Civilization" has (as Freud would argue) been built on repression, and it doesn't work: the point is to satisfy all desires, thereby eradicating conflict and violence and ushering in the state known as "Harmony".
Unlike the linear plane, which is intrinsically fraught with inequality and hierarchy, the circle world was built on equity, harmony and balance.
The dream world of Mr. Bacharach's music is built on chromatic harmonies that hover anxiously between major and minor keys; angular, knotty melodies that rush, then hesitate, quickly changing time; hints of Brazilian bossa nova.
At No 1 is Bon Iver, whose debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, is built on layers of harmony, each one a recording of Justin Vernon's soft descant vocal.
Music composed before the 17th century was built on assumptions about harmony (among other elements) that were gradually replaced as music headed toward the Classical and Romantic languages in which the bulk of today's standard canon is written.
Yet to working musicians whose sense of form and craft were deeply ingrained — and whose personal artistry and place in the profession were built on improvising on the harmonies of songs — Coleman, for all his lyrical inventiveness and rhythmic drive, was a threat.
Even the leprosy decision, say some LDP insiders, was not taken by Mr Koizumi at all, but by his chief cabinet secretary, Yasuo Fukuda.The idea of consensus has a powerful appeal for Japanese, who seem convinced, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that their society and culture are built on a foundation of wa, harmony.
Serving one another is part of maintaining the group harmony that Japanese society is built on, so fill your friends' cups and allow them to do the same for you.
Bach's themes, he said, are built on the same number of bars as jazz pieces, his harmonies are similar to jazz harmonies and his continuo bass line anticipates the jazz form to come.
His solos are built on flow and continuity, stretching germs of ideas about scales and harmony out into giant, flowing strokes.
