Sentence examples for harmonic relationships from inspiring English sources
Haydn began to explore new harmonic relationships, particularly in the late piano trios.
A domestic soundscape of fridge hum, fly buzz and fluorescent-light whine is dizzyingly complex in its shifting harmonic relationships.
Beginning in the nineteen-twenties, Partch vowed to return music to the pure harmonic relationships of ancient Greece, and invented new instruments in order to realize his vision.
The idea is that certain kinds of musical phrases, certain harmonic relationships, came pre-loaded (for connoisseurs who knew these things) with affective associations similar to turns of verbal phrase.
To the extent that such painterly composition was possible before, it was stylized: Vivaldi's "Seasons" unfold with tightly prescribed harmonic relationships, and even avant-garde moments like the chaotic opening of Haydn's "Creation" resolve into comfortable tonality.
You can definitely hear it as tension — not so much music's usual tension of harmonic relationships, of development and resolution, but the listener's tension of taste and judgment, between recognizing what is beautiful and what is vapid.
(The differences are not random. There is a harmonic relationship among the frequencies, and they are probably related to the size of the inner ear).
The most celebrated mashups are melodically tuned, positing a harmonic relationship between, say, Madonna's voice and the Sex Pistols' guitars.
Primarily to avoid the forbidden, unstable harmonic relationship of the tritone, the use of accidentals (sharps, flats, natural signs) entered music and introduced chromatic tones into a mode.
This construction is of interest in projective geometry because the location of the fourth point is independent of the choice of the first three lines in the construction, and the harmonic relationship of the four points is preserved if the line is projected onto another line.
They had a harmonic relationship in which industry folks took part-time courses at Stanford.
