Sentence examples for harmonic pattern from inspiring English sources

The second movement, "Silencio," draws on the Baroque form of the chaconne, with a recurring harmonic pattern.

Full of coquettish humour and allure within a fairly conventional harmonic pattern, they don't obviously point towards the stark Expressionism which was to come (he wrote the melodrama Pierrot Lunaire in 1912).

As he also explained to the audience before playing, Bach's work is a set of variations not on a melody, but on a bass line and series of chords (a harmonic pattern).

Also on the program were Telemann's Violin Concerto in A minor, given a brooding and fiery performance, and a little-known work by Nicola Matteis, a set of variations on a repeating, four-measure harmonic pattern.

I performed what most music lovers think of as the Partita No. 3, but which I knew in its other guise, as the Lute Suite No. 4. I also picked my way less conclusively through a transcription of the Chaconne from the Partita No. 2: a mammoth set of variations over a constant, repeating harmonic pattern, and one of the crowning works in the Bach canon.

So, AHSM emphasizes the harmonic pattern and reflects the variations in the fundamental frequency.

Birds, too, compose songs with the same notes, rhythmic variations, harmonic patterns and pitch relationships as those found in human compositions.

Schenker suggested that every composition using the familiar tonal musical language of the 19th century was built from such melodic and harmonic patterns.

Were its fearful symmetries – mirrorings, inversions, harmonic patterns – encoded by the composer or are they merely musical crop circles created by our own wishful imaginations, as if only arcane explanations can account for Bach's unmatched, godlike genius.

But in summing up the quality he finds most commendable about Mr. Moody, Mr. Heath said: "He's constantly seeking new musical knowledge, always sending me new books of harmonic patterns that he's come across.

Every half hour, computer software will set about "learning" the music, pulling out melodic and harmonic patterns and playing them through speakers, until Mozart's sixty-four-bar coda is heard complete; then the computer's memory is erased, and the process starts again.