Sentence examples for rules of harmony from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

So is narrative: it is allowed to draw in all the stories that are close, connected as though by the rules of harmony.

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.

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".

Or the rule of "harmony" if "love" sounds too hippie for you?

Larger tigers, which can be careless about the rules of interspecies harmony, are retired to cages.

Traditional rules of European harmony are consistently disregarded, giving rise to a spare, vigorous style in which the movement of the individual melodic lines is of primary importance.

He wrote and played in a way that seemed intuitive, but which was grounded in his deep knowledge of all the rules of classical harmony and the blues (and his roadhouse days in Texas).

After all those years of creating spooky globs of noise with unusual guitar tunings, the band found a musician who is as respectful of the rules of tonal harmony as he is of billowing dissonance; these are both venerable forms.