Either you get the perfect balance of references and realities contained in that May 23 , 1963 video race, blues, swing, melody, harmony, time, fashion, clave, avant, folklore, academy, mystic, complex, simple or you don't.
The winner was Seamus Blake, 31, a New Yorker who was reared in Vancouver, British Columbia; most at the competition, judges and spectators alike, agreed that he had more of everything: melody, harmony, time, coherence, originality.
It has not been a harmonious time, but harmony is often purchased by suppressing those with something to say.
Upon leaving the smoldering city, Sherman commented, "Never before or since have I heard the chorus of 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' done with more spirit or in better harmony of time and place".
He plays with unabashed enthusiasm for melody: no mazes of harmony or time signature here; the warm, sweet lines ripely tumble out, dictating the band's rhythm as they go. 5. NO AGE: 'WEIRDO RIPPERS' (Fat Cat).
Meanwhile, relegated largely to Thursday morning (unless you count former Australia PM Kevin Rudd's opening address, in which he offered this hilariously Pollyanna-ish prescription for global harmony: "Next time you meet someone from China, sit down and have a conversation!"), the politics and social justice portions of this year's programme felt, subtly, like a secondary priority.
For most of our history, humans have lived in far greater harmony with time's slow passage; indeed, there are indigenous cultures -- the Indonesian Moken people, for example -- that have no word for time.
The hummable melodies hid the crunchy harmonies, odd time signatures, and sophisticated counterpoint.
Destiny's Child had abundant visual and vocal presence, as its members pulled off intricate harmonies in time with synchronized dance moves.
But it is, over all, an evanescent score, its melodic phrases brief and unmemorable, its harmonies and time signatures mostly unchallenging.
BAND OF HORSES In one sense "Mirage Rock" is a step toward rock 'n' roll classicism for Band of Horses: produced by Glyn Johns, who was inducted this year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it's an album of lilting melody and shimmering harmony, at times suggestive of America or Neil Young.
