For every honky-tonk shuffle in the set, there were two or three tunes based on fingerpicking 1970's soft rock, and the Chicks' harmonies owe as much to Crosby, Stills and Nash as to bluegrass.
It was only in Mr. Kigawa's alternately energetic and introspectively delicate readings of five Ligeti Études (1985-2001) thet the influence of the Impressionists faded, though it did not evaporate entirely: the steady beat and angular melodies of "Cordes à Vide," for example, were wrapped around cloudy harmonies that owed something to Debussy.
In cycles gone by though harmony was established, yet, owing to the absence of means, the unity of all mankind could not have been achieved.
This unaccustomed family harmony may have owed much to the influence of Henry's new wife Catherine Parr, of whom Edward soon became fond.
The pit orchestra was the Colorado Symphony, and its sonorous projection and fine internal balances made especially clear how much Mr. Adams's harmonies and orchestration owe to the neo-Classical Stravinsky.
It was here that the brothers began to develop their unmistakable harmonies, though they owed a debt to other notable sibling acts in country music such as the Monroe Brothers, the Delmore Brothers, and their contemporaries the Louvin Brothers.
Its songs are almost stubbornly simple, sometimes disturbingly so, owing loads to sun-baked Beach Boys harmonies.
Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
It was owing to these measures that neither civil dissension broke the harmony of the State nor foreign war interrupted the observance of his most excellent and admirable institutions.
