Sentence examples for harmonic fabric from inspiring English sources
Each section is built on a simple cantus firmus — a brief, unharmonized chant — around which a rich, involving six-part harmonic fabric is woven.
He was a master of conveying emotional truths, and in the chamber music particularly, he did so by supporting melodies of uncommon innocence and directness with a harmonic fabric of understated sophistication.
And then there was Ives, the crusty New England iconoclast who wove hymns, marches and patriotic songs into his often dissonant harmonic fabric, and his friend Carl Ruggles, whose musical vision of America was daring, idiosyncratic and often muscular.
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?
Mr. Reich uses a process called slow-motion sound, in which he slows the flow of speech without altering the pitch and prolongs syllables into lingering tones that become part of the overall harmonic fabric.
In Ms. Thorvaldsdottir's piece, the strings and woodwinds effectively created a dark atmosphere and the impression of a distant, howling wind early on, before melting into the work's morphing harmonic fabric.
The work Time Stretch (On Gesualdo) takes part of a Gesualdo madrigal to create a basic fabric of harmonic progressions on which Mantovani superimposes his own ideas.
Such devices remain, but they are incorporated into a fabric that also encompasses neo-Romantic lyricism and sometimes pointed harmonic acerbity.
Interestingly — possible harmonic spoiler!
Harmonic functions and harmonic conjugates.
