Sentence examples for harmonic arrangements from inspiring English sources

For an album packed with songs, JB and Nicolas's voices are scarcely ever there to hear, instead buried in deep-pile harmonic arrangements percolated through modulating effects.

Always adept at embracing new ventures, Shankar had begun working on a project that would become, to David's harmonic arrangements, an opera about a sage whose extreme self-abnegation is interrupted by his desire for a much younger woman.

The reasons are twofold, one is that the above numbers are top-1 identification results, the other is that many database songs of a same singer have quite similar musical aspects in rhythm, harmonic progression, instrument arrangement, etc. so that the queries are confused.

For this album the jazz pianist and arranger Gil Goldstein prepared alluring arrangements with richly harmonic piano parts and, now and then, a bit of accordion.

Experimental results demonstrate that this arrangement reduces harmonic distortion to at least 20 dB below the fundamental driving frequency for most operating conditions.

PHOTOS: Hollywood stars on stage Ever the devoted antiquarian of American music, Feinstein unearthed fascinating finds — a jaunty "March For Americans" by Ferde Grofé, unheard since 1941 and filled with his harmonic trademarks; a gorgeous arrangement of Lionel Newman's haunting tune "Again"; and James P. Johnson's "Victory Stride" with its riotous big-band ending.

Harmony is about the chord arrangements and having harmonic qualities that blend with both the rhythmic feel and the melody of the song.

Instead of a harmonic happy ending, the typical arrangement fades out like a ghost in the fog.

But this expansion also happened in Walter Blanding's arrangement of the harmonic exercise "Giant Steps," which switched back and forth between fast tempo for trio and quartet and slow tempo for orchestra, ending in a three-tenor scrimmage among Mr. Redman, Mr. Blanding and Victor Goines.

Tunes that could get by with a vamp and a melody unfold with multiple themes as arrangements layer on jazzy harmonic convolutions.

In making an arrangement for a group of musicians the arranger will embellish both the harmonic structure and the melody of the composition; or the arrangement will be worked out in rehearsal and memorized or written down later.