Sentence examples for study harmony from inspiring English sources

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

He was accepted at Harvard Law School in 1913, but even the dean smelled a rat, and suggested that his precocious student study harmony and counterpoint instead.

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

Williams later heard Louis Armstrong in Tulsa; this inspired him to study harmony and develop a solo style based on harmonic rather than melodic improvisation.

Too often, it implies a disrespect for learning on the part of musicians too "cool" to study harmony or to make the effort to rehearse ("Let's just jam in my old man's garage").

I came to America to study harmony and rhythm and improvisations and got deeper and deeper into the lyrics and what the songs actually meant.

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.

Schuman studied harmony and composition at Malkin Conservatory, New York City, and then studied at Teachers College, Columbia University (B.S., 1935; M.A., 1937).

She also took them to Paris, where young William studied harmony in hopes of becoming a classical pianist.

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.