Sentence examples for functional harmony from inspiring English sources

Atonality, in music, the absence of functional harmony as a primary structural element.

The dominant seventh chord thus became one of the basic chords in functional harmony.

It's squarely tonal music, not post-Schoenberg in the sense of avoiding functional harmony.

Music using the system of functional harmony has a flow of harmonic movement through contrasting chords and through passages from consonant to dissonant to consonant chords.

Functional harmony was based on chords built from the diatonic (seven-note) major and minor scales; chromatic notes and chords were integrated into the functional system.

In Western art music, the whole-tone scale is associated with the decline of functional harmony in the late 19th century.

Each melodic line is saturated with so much non-functional harmony that you should savour each dissonance; the terrors of the Holocaust are represented in the modal shadings of C minor.

Even its most striking modernisms--the polytonality and the non-functional harmony--have clear antecedents in Roman Carnival and in the Requiem.

It reflects in the functional connectivity where harmony between opposing demands of functional integration and function segregation is maintained for economical networking.

The acquisition of a leading organic food company is part of a company-wide "health initiative" -- along with adding calcium to various product lines and developing "functional foods" like Harmony, a soy-and-calcium-fortified cereal aimed at menopausal women.

There is functional and professional harmony between UNICEF's functionaries and the local communities.