"harmonic" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to an arrangement of tones that is pleasing to the ear. For example: "The harmonic blend of the violin and the piano created a beautiful soundscape."
The latter's harmonic idiom – often called atonal – also diverges strongly from Stravinsky's approach, which is essentially modal and hardly further removed from tonality than the work of his Parisian friends Debussy and Ravel.
In tandem with this linear simplicity, the work's gigantic crunching harmonies move at the pace of glaciers, this slow harmonic movement paradoxically magnifying the overall sense of energy and drive.
In fact, in real life when something is pushed towards a central point in proportion to its distance from that point (as in pendulums, weights on springs, molecules trapped in solids, and musical instruments - we call this 'simple harmonic motion') it will indeed move in a sine curve, which is why trigonometry is the mathematics of oscillations as well as triangles and circles.
Its origins date to the 1870s, with experiments by Alexander Graham Bell and competitors (dropped in favour of a switch to voice) on "harmonic" and "multitone" telegraphy.
They were synonymous with a progressive theory of composition that replaced classical forms with organic structure, harmonic freedom and subjects derived from literature.
"All those altered scales and harmonic extensions people were calling modern in the 1940s, I knew all about years earlier," he said.He was conservative too in his life offstage.
Yet "Orfeo" covers well-trodden territory for Mr Powers, whose novels often mine the peculiarities of the technological age.Here, the author sees the poetry in chemistry, observing its "spectral harmonies and harmonic spectroscopy".
The rest is so-called "dark" matter, whose exact nature remains mysterious.The harmonics show the ratio of ordinary matter to dark matter, because the first harmonic relates to the quantity of matter of all varieties, and the second relates to the speed of sound in the primordial gas (which consisted only of ordinary matter).
In mathematics we call them harmonics and there is a deep theory that takes this further in which sophisticated signals can be deconstructed; this is called harmonic analysis.These theories are as far apart as Europe and America but what the Langlands Programme does is enable transportation between any point in Europe to any point in America and back.
These were coherent harmonic and timbral themes which were either present in or absent from a clip.
The two researchers employed what they call "high harmonic pulse generation" to create pulses a few hundred attoseconds long.
