Sentence examples for modal harmonies of from inspiring English sources

In the more ceremonial scenes, there are painfully obvious borrowings from the chantlike melodies and modal harmonies of Olivier Messiaen.

Cultural Transformation In the Beatles' music a listener could identify the influences of American rhythm and blues, as well as show tunes and older pop forms and, for an exotic touch, the modal harmonies of British folk song.

Roussel's mature style, employing both the modal harmonies of Oriental music and the dissonances of the contemporary idiom, is a reaction against French Impressionism as well as against the chromaticism of Franck.

Throughout the evening the musicians gave vibrant accounts of the songs, dances and incidental music, rich with reedy lines for Chinese winds, delicately whining modal harmonies on the strings, rattling cymbals and clanking chimes.

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

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.

Ms. Saariaho occasionally evokes an antique flavor with the struck harp arpeggios of troubadour music, rhythms of medieval dance and modal harmonies tailored to each of the three characters.

We can hear it in the "Concerto Gregoriano" for violin and orchestra, of 1921, which, in its use of ancient modal harmonies and restrained instrumentation, sounds both sensual and pure; and in the "Trittico Botticelliano," of 1927, magical evocations of three of the Renaissance master's most famous paintings.

She excelled in the beautiful "Ballad of the King of Thule," with its Renaissance-tinged modal harmonies.

But you can talk about Monk's music, its use of repetition, its drones, modal harmonies, its often wordless vocalising.

The music draws from all elements of Messiaen's language: modal harmonies, cluster chords thick with tart dissonance, metrically complex meters based on Hindu and Greek rhythms, chantlike melodies and skittish bird calls.