While his phrasing usually resembled Charlie Parker's in rhythmic terms, Dolphy harmonically was given to wide, angular leaps and distant relations to fixed harmonic structures, so that his chromatic lines at times seemed to approach atonality.
He created luminous harmonic structures that will last as long as our civilisation.
Indeed, Coleman freed it of its reliance on familiar chord changes and harmonic structures.
A primitive guitarist, he played simple harmonies, pentatonic scales, and one-chord, modal harmonic structures.
On "Little Imber" (ECM), Giya Kancheli creates these harmonic structures that are so magnificent and huge, almost terrifying.
"The Holy Visions" gives Hildegard's Latin texts a kaleidoscopic setting in which rhythmic patterns and harmonic structures constantly shift.
After Cherry joined Coleman's quartet, the group abandoned standard harmonic structures in favour of improvisation wholly on melodic material.
The researchers learned that feathers of different shapes and sizes resulted in different frequencies with different harmonic structures.
The big group, playing free of harmonic structures and foot-tapping rhythm, gives the succession and shift of musical events a tumultuous, organic flow.
It's a capacious reserve, though restricted compared to, say, jazz, with its often much broader instrumentation and more complicated harmonic structures.
The jazz-influenced songs of Mr. Fagen and Mr. Becker featured harmonic structures and chord progressions unusually complicated for rock and roll.
