Sentence examples for studied harmony from inspiring English sources

At the Granoff School of Music in Philly, he studied harmony, & took lessons on the bass.

In 1901 he went to Warsaw and studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition privately until 1904.

His father made sure that he also learned the piano, studied harmony and counterpoint, and sat with older colleagues learning string quartets, training that is rare at an early age even today.

He studied harmony in London with Richard Rodney Bennett and the highly original former Stan Kenton arranger Bill Russo, who was working for the BBC in London in the early 1960s.

He studied harmony and counterpoint with the late Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum for a while, but he gave that up when he found the influence of the French classical school was interfering with his own sense of rhythm.

Kenny studied harmony and trumpet at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto (1950-51), then went to London (rather than the US, where the Korean war draft was under way) to pursue his developing obsession with jazz.

In the summer months he went to France to study harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger.

When Xenakis approached Olivier Messiaen in Paris for composition lessons, Messiaen turned him down, because, "I think one should study harmony and counterpoint.

Only after college did his interest in composing deepen to the point that he began studying harmony and orchestration in earnest.

Tchaikovsky spent nearly three years at St . PetersburgConservatory, studying harmony and counterpoint with Nikolay Zaremba and composition and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein.

Crouch writes that Parker also got serious about music, studying harmony at the piano and spending lots of time listening to other musicians on the radio, including the trumpeter Roy Eldridge and the alto saxophonist Buster Smith.