Niels Gade's "Phantasiestücke," for example, "evokes in my mind a kind of sweetness and naïve feeling about harmonic progressions and melodic lines," he said.
In the slow movement, which reveals depth of feeling through harmonic experimentation, Rana didn't make the mistake of overdramatizing.
(Chinen) ★ Jason Moran and the Bandwagon / Geri Allen (Saturday) Elevated pianism provides the through-line in this double bill: Mr. Moran and Ms. Allen are among the leading jazz pianists in the game, both adept with gospel sonorities, postbop harmonic involution and deep blues feeling.
He was learning the harmonics of flavor.
By 13:00 - more harmonics - I'm left feeling as irritated by the crowd as the band.
Mr. Sparks favored a clean, flinty tone, combining the brisk harmonic fluency of bebop with the bite and feeling of the blues.
The theme's harmonic implications, which contribute to the feeling of key, took precedence over its attractiveness as melody.
Indeed, in his "All Set" (1957), for winds, brasses and percussion, he achieved a freely improvisatory feeling within an atonal harmonic context.
The first noticeable stylistic advance is evident in Koanga (1895 97), with richer chords and faster harmonic rhythms; here we find Delius "feeling his way towards the vein that he was soon to tap so surely".
As in other major works, Mr. Golijov unabashedly embraces feeling, melody and richly tonal harmonic writing.
