Sentence examples for harmonic stasis from inspiring English sources
So for me, harmonic stasis was in the air".
This trance-inducing harmonic stasis was undoubtedly taken from folk practice.
All these musics were built on rhythmic complexity and timbral variety, but relatively constant harmonic stasis.
"In the period from 1961 to 1963 there was a strong new musical direction in the air: harmonic stasis.
His famous stamping chords are usually discussed in terms of their insistence, but much of that comes down to harmonic stasis – the point is that it is the same chord repeated more than 200 times.
"The giant in all this harmonic stasis for me was John Coltrane in his Africa Brass album of 1961 where the title tune is 16 minutes – all on E!... the low E of the double bass played by Jimmy Garrison.
"Transit," which closed the set, paired a driving swing tempo with a dronelike harmonic underlay, creating a dual impression of progress and stasis.
The Feldman work, for flute, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion, did what many Feldman works do: it used sustained notes and slow movement to give the impression of stasis while quietly exploring a variety of harmonic and rhythmic ideas, to say nothing of the psychological space that music creates.
Modal playing, with its endless pedal points and one-chord bass ostinatos, allowed by definition no harmonic progression or forward movement and resulted in a structural stasis that only, maybe, the greatest improvisers could overcome.
Thereafter, the performance's strength often lay in its detail, as Gergiev mined the sinister implications of instrumental solos at points of near stasis, and ratcheted up tensions by emphasising brief but savage harmonic clashes.
