The phrase "out of harmony" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a situation or relationship that is not in agreement or balance. Example: After their disagreement, the two sisters were out of harmony with each other.
Mr. Marsalis was featured in "Carlos," a musical portrait of the Mexican matador Carlos Arruza from the mid-60's with a tonal atmosphere similar to that of the Gil EvalbumileSketchesalbum "Sketches of Spain". Mr. Wilson gets his drama out of harmony and dynamics, and Mr. Marsalis rose to the occasion, matching the tension of the piece with a tight solo, ending with whistling glissando figures.
They also contend that the building "would be totally out of harmony" with the neighborhood.
Typewriter & telephones rule the world, techniques, ideas & mores are all out of harmony.
The imperialist Firelord (voiced by Mark Hamill) is on a rampage, throwing everything out of harmony.
This, he felt, was "out of harmony" with the way he thought rape victims should behave.
Not only is it a waste of money, he said, but it is also "out of harmony with everything".
An examination of Schenker's concepts of the relation between strict counterpoint and free writing; "prolongation"; the "composing-out" of harmonies; the parallels and distinctions between "foreground," "middle ground," and "background"; and the interaction between composing-out and thematic processes to create "form.
The music is cleaner, sweeter, and you wonder how you put up with out-of-tune harmonies for so long.
"Contemplativo," the first, played with delicate colorings and rhapsodic expressivity, sounds like Ravel, ingeniously updated — a succession of rolled chords with pungent out-of-focus harmonies.
But the composer certainly has an ear for alluringly out-of-focus harmonies, scored here for softly whining woodwinds and thin, flighty high-pitched strings.
In a bold stroke, he began with Gyorgy Ligeti's "Atmosphères," a landmark 1961 work of just 10 minutes, an experiment in complete musical stasis through a matrix of hushed, shimmering, fidgeting inner voices and out-of-focus harmonies.
