By Alex Ross Gesualdo bent the rules of harmony in extreme ways.
Nearly every tune on the program used a theme-solos-theme template, and the musicians honored the rules of harmony.
So is narrative: it is allowed to draw in all the stories that are close, connected as though by the rules of harmony.
The gifted had begun to apply the basic rules of harmony to their analysis; the others were able to count the steps and to recognise major and minor.
He attacked traditional theory on the ground that "The Ancients," who to Rameau included such relatively recent writers as the 16th-century Italian Gioseffo Zarlino, "…based the rules of harmony on melody, instead of beginning with harmony, which comes first".
The works of his mature period �� he died in 1613, at the age of forty-seven — bend the rules of harmony to a degree that remained unmatched until the advent of Wagner.
The pianist Llyr Williams began the evening with "La Lugubre Gondola," whose morose vision, quiet voice and indifference to accepted rules of harmony show how far Liszt in old age had come from the florid paraphrases and rhapsodies of the past.
Parry and a student of his, Albert Lord, formed the Parry-Lord hypothesis, which proposed that epic poems such as the Iliad and the Odyssey were made up of formulas that involved descriptions and characters and scenes that were assembled for an occasion by poets who were improvising, much as musicians improvise according to a song's chord structures and the rules of harmony.
Composing fugues, for example – which has been done from the Baroque to the modern era – involves taking a small melodic idea and applying permutations and rules that extend, develop and interweave it in overlapping voices, while preserving some basic and essential rules of harmony.
Departing From the Rules of Harmony (2011).
