Sentence examples for harmonic implication from inspiring English sources

This is a strong postbop collective with plenty of moves at its command: advanced rhythmic calculus, sly harmonic implication, cohesive elasticity, brute force.

Bach, however, also saw the harmonic implications beneath Vivaldi's high drama and could not resist spelling them out.

Adding jazzy chords with intriguing harmonic implications would amount to a lapse in taste -- like gold-plating a Shaker box.

The theme's harmonic implications, which contribute to the feeling of key, took precedence over its attractiveness as melody.

Both the chaconne and passacaglia, related polyphonic types, were based on dancelike ostinato patterns, often with specific harmonic implications.

Yet Wagner's chords are full of harmonic implications: each one drives, however haltingly, to the next.

Coleman composed melodies that had wondrous harmonic implications — and he and his bandmates adopted those implications freely, as the inspiration struck them.

The harmonic implications of the overtone series also allowed Grisey to create a hierarchy within his micro-tonally enriched musical world, which gives his music a monumental dynamism.

Horns dropped out as soloists spun lines above the rhythm section, usually drawing on the harmonic implications of mid-1960's jazz.

But what is new is the way Wagner mines an entire opera's worth of musical drama from the myriad harmonic implications that this collection of notes opens up.

Even though inversions do not necessarily alter the harmonic implications of chords, root positions do convey a greater sense of harmonic stability, since the fundamental tone, the chord root, appears in the bass, acoustically its natural habitat.