Sentence examples for modal harmonies and from inspiring English sources

Here the music is charged with ancient modal harmonies and, for Mr. Glass, uncommonly intense emotional richness.

The composer was drawn to the singers' sweetly modal harmonies and clear kinship to medieval English carols.

But all the sounds were natural, nothing was amplified, and the music she wrote was rich with mystical modal harmonies and plaintive melodic lines.

Salsa pianists have a longstanding affinity for jazz, but Eddie Palmieri may well be the jazziest and most experimental of them all, plunging into modal harmonies and burly, splashing chord clusters.

But I picked up bits of Americana in his piece, including Copland-esque modal harmonies and hints of "Rhapsody in Blue" in a passage for muted trumpets and soulful clarinet.

Latin pianists have a longstanding affinity for jazz, but Eddie Palmieri may well be the jazziest and most experimental of them all, plunging into modal harmonies and burly, splashing chord clusters, building suspense and then detonating it with rhythm.

Her evocations of the troubadour songs, with medieval modal harmony and fragments of elegiac tunes, are marvelous.

At the other end of the spectrum was "The Backward Step," a tune by Mr. Payton with modal harmony and drifting rhythm.

Elements of serialism, evocations of ancient modal harmony and pungent, tonally grounded sonorities mix it up in his teeming, rhythmically restless works.

Parts of "Prepaid Funeral" evoked Thelonious Monk and late-'50s Charles Mingus; "Daylight," with modal harmony and single-chord vamps, suggested Coltrane's "Africa/Brass".

The skilled young choristers, all current or recent students at the Vienna University of Music, brought a hearty energy to the mass's many moments of sustained modal harmony and skittish contrapuntal intricacy.