Sentence examples for subtle harmonic from inspiring English sources

Timbaland is not a trained musician, yet his tracks pulse with complex syncopation and subtle harmonic information.

Like well-made songs, his essays don't just have strong verses and choruses but bridges, too, unexpected bits that make subtle harmonic connections.

Guided by his agile technique and subtle harmonic sense, Ellis became a more responsive foil for Peterson than Kessel had been, and the ensemble also became the rhythmic engine of Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic touring packages.

Before each portion of the orchestra handed off drone duties, there were brief moments of overlapped playing – and it was at these junctures that the subtle harmonic movement of Conrad's piece was most evident.

Writing music as a Catholic through the "fluctuating fortunes" of those believers allowed him to create a rich body of work filled with the sort of personal yearning that makes the quiet practice of deep religious faith so poignant, gestures of longing revealed by a single surprising interval or subtle harmonic upheaval.

Even more remarkably, you can still hear both in his music even today: the Beatles' quirky melodism and subtle harmonic twists make regular appearances in his pieces, including a cameo in his latest work, the ensemble piece Only the Sound Remains.

Shaw was dapper and devilishly handsome, while Goodman looked pudgy and professorial; Shaw had the subtler harmonic sense, while Goodman generated more rhythmic excitement.

But the rhythmic intricacies of Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 1 are best discerned in conspiratorial proximity, and the subtler harmonic dimensions of Ravel's String Quartet in F refuse to shout.

With a span of just under an hour, this remarkable piece of sonic architecture is held together by Reich's characteristic phasing and subtle shifts of harmonic and rhythmic direction.

Bigand et al. [44] showed that a subtle variation in harmonic processing interfered with phoneme monitoring in the perception of choral music sung with pseudowords.

In some cases, these features add the perception of deeper bass than small headphones can actually produce, by introducing subtle mid-range harmonics that might be produced by those lower bass tones.