His chansons (about 60 have survived) were admired particularly for their melodic beauty, rhythmic complexity, harmonic colour, and clarity of structure.
Mwamba described Coleman Hawkins as "a harmonic beast.
Even the 1964 string quartet by Witold Lutoslawski became a thing of recurring beauty: passages of harmonics like a fall of stars; rich chords sounding together before wandering off onto individual tangents of thought, each following its own specified path, but at will, in the composer's version of controlled chance.
The orchestration here is effective; in gentle passages of lamentation the music has a richly chromatic, though backward-looking, harmonic language and a certain ruminative beauty.
"I like that place there: where beauty and the grotesque live in harmonic fascination".
The transcendent values of Bach's music -- its melodic beauty, its contrapuntal strength, its rhythmic vitality, its harmonic profundity -- speak across time, in a universal language, to a multitude of composers.
With broad vocal harmonies and harmonic motion built from unusual guitar tunings, the band gives you beauty until you can't stand it.
But they are set in a thorny harmonic fabric that undercuts their appeal — or is it that the beauty of the themes softens the harshness of Mr. Schaeffer's harmony?
To constantly use a musical instrument in a way that contradicts the basic principles of its construction not only closes off a main avenue of beauty but also prevents the production of sounds that can evoke harmonic possibilities.
"Frank's playing," said guitarist Larry Koonse, who worked frequently with Marocco, most recently on his latest CD, "was always so lyrical, warm and full of the kind of harmonic richness that just invited you to step in and participate in the beauty of the moment.
