Sentence examples for harmonic variation from inspiring English sources

It settled into vamps, providing fertile ground for a pianism that's band-based and orchestral as opposed to inward and based in harmonic variation.

The axial speed is characterized as a simple harmonic variation about the constant mean speed.

More specifically, anti-plane strain conditions are assumed to hold and all external loads have a time harmonic variation.

From the proto rock and roll of Bo Diddley's Pretty Thing to the minimalist epiphany of Terry Riley's In C, absence of harmonic variation has been one way of avoiding sophistication.

The problem considered is an initially stressed viscoelastic string subjected to steady state and harmonic variation of axial motion.

The azimuthal directivity of the of the propeller noise remains no longer axisymmetric, and changes to a wave-like harmonic variation.

He's a modernist to the core, and he imbued his solos with a host of harmonic variations.

He stayed within reach of the melody, often brushing against it but also implying some modest harmonic variations.

The highlight is Mr. Frasca's 23-minute "Deviations," an elaborate set of rhythmic and harmonic variations with pizzicato figures and percussive tapping on the guitar's body woven through the increasingly dense texture.

"I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variations," Davis told the writer Nat Hentoff for Jazz Review in December 1958.

Here, on "Don't Explain" (Palmetto), a duo recording with the pianist Brad Mehldau, he stamps harmonic variations on standards, including "Get Happy," a few different takes of "Round Midnight" and a medium-slow ballad version of Sonny Rollins's traditionally breathless "Oleo".