| 单词 | harmonic |
| 例句 | Instead, the harmonics give the note its color. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Which harmonic will be one octave higher than the fourth harmonic? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This set of waves is called a harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Also, some musicians use the term overtones as a synonym for harmonics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But the relationship between the frequencies of a harmonic series is always the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Write the harmonic series for the instrument above when both the first and second valves are open. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z My parents came in then, looking expectant, and 1 just nodded and they fell into each other, feeling, I’m sure, the harmonic terror that would in time come for them directly. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z NOTE: The dominant in modal music did not have the harmonic function that the dominant has in tonal music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So a trumpet or tuba can get one harmonic series using no valves, another one a half step lower using one valve, another one a whole step lower using another valve, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 3.14: The second harmonic has half the wavelength and twice the frequency of the first. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Like that which cycles through Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’, these sequences were driven by the direction of travel of the bass line, giving forward momentum to the music, hence the name ‘harmonic progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Figure 4.42: These harmonic series are for a brass instrument that has a 11C11 fundamental when no valves are being used — for example, a C trumpet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What is a string player doing when she plays "harmonics"? Why do some notes sound good together while other notes seem to clash with each other? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The valves can be used in combination, too, making even more harmonic series available. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The answers to all of these questions have to do with the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Modulations can make harmonic analysis much more challenging, so try to become comfortable analyzing easier pieces before tackling pieces with modulations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The harmonic minor scale raises the seventh note of the scale by one half step, whether you are going up or down the scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z All chords will tend towards pure fifths and thirds, as well as seconds, fourths, sixths, and sevenths that reflect the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z By vibrating the lips at different speeds, the player can cause a harmonic of the air column to sound instead of the fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z NOTE: This method of naming and numbering harmonics is the most straightforward and least confusing, but there are other ways of naming and numbering harmonics, and this can cause confusion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The third harmonic has a third the wavelength and three times the frequency of the first. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In other words, the second harmonic is still half the length of the fundamental, the third harmonic is one third the length, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He starts a run, reaches a midpoint in the second bar where there should be a set of complex harmonics, stops, and goes back to begin over, dissatisfied. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The note name is the name of the fundamental harmonic of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There is another set of names that is commonly used, particularly in classical music, to talk about harmonic relationships. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It is not uncommon to find college-level music theory courses that are largely devoted to harmonic analysis and its relationship to musical forms. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Notice that it doesn't matter what the length of the fundamental is; the waves in the second harmonic must be half the length of the first harmonic; that's the only way they'll both "fit." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Music in which the chords change rarely has a slow harmonic rhythm; music in which the chords change often has a fast harmonic rhythm. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The difference is the relative loudness of all the different harmonics compared to each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And due to some harmonic resonance, I started crying again too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The negative aspect is that it means that all intervals except for octaves are slightly out of tune with regard to the actual harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Where do the harmonics, and the timbre, come from? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Like octaves, the other intervals are also produced by the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The phone waves seemed to be generating a harmonic in his stomach. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 4.41: Although limited by the fact that it can only play one harmonic series, the bugle can still play many well-known tunes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z NOTE: If you have been looking at the harmonic series above closely, you may have noticed that some notes that are written to give the same interval have different frequency ratios. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 3.7: There is a whole set of standing waves, called harmonics, that will fit into any 11container11 of a specific length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some string players can get more harmonics by both holding the string down in one spot and touching it lightly in another spot, but this is an advanced technique. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But the string is also vibrating in halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, and so on, producing harmonics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Notice that the fourth harmonic is also twice the frequency of the second harmonic, and the sixth harmonic is also twice the frequency of the third harmonic. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 6.3: Both the 9:8 ratio and the 10:9 ratio in the harmonic series are written as whole notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the fundamental is included in calculations, it is called the first partial, and the rest of the harmonics are the second, third, fourth partials and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z You can begin practicing harmonic analysis by practicing identifying whether a piece is in the major key or in its relative minor. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But a brass player, without changing the length of the instrument, gets different notes by actually playing the harmonics of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So if the first harmonic is a "A," the second and fourth will also be A's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Usually one valve gives the harmonic series one half step lower than the valveless intrument; another, one whole step lower; and the third, one and a half steps lower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z To find out more about harmonics and how they affect a musical sound, see Harmonic Series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What is the pattern that predicts which notes of a harmonic series will be one octave apart? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z NOTE: In some woodwinds, such as the clarinet , the upper "octave" may actually be the third harmonic rather than the second, which complicates the fingering patterns of these instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This is also because of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This course will go no further than to encourage you to develop a basic understanding of what harmonic analysis is about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The string vibrating in halves produces the second harmonic; vibrating in thirds produces the third harmonic, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What other harmonics have an interval of a fifth? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Kepler’s third or harmonic law, a precise connection between the size of a plan- et’s orbit and the period for it to go once around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitting it sets off vibrations in the note of A—vibrations that keep growing, and growing, until the harmonic pitch fills up the room. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some musicians do not consider the fundamental to be a harmonic; it is just the fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The fourth harmonic has a quarter the wavelength and four times the frequency of the first, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The harmonic series is not just a useful idea constructed by music theory; it is often found in "real life," in the real-world physics of musical sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Remember, there is an entire harmonic series for every fundamental, and any note can be a fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different classes, with names like the harmonic mean. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Notice in particular the relationship of the altered notes in the harmonic, melodic, and dorian minors. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The eighth, sixteenth, and thirty-second harmonics will also be A's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.18 as an ascending harmonic minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And every musical note you hear is not a single pure frequency, but is actually a blend of the pitches of a particular harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then came the distinctive harmonic thrum as the lute was taken out of its case. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The next longest wave is the third harmonic, or second overtone, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The next longest wave that fits is the second harmonic, or the first overtone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Natural harmonics are ‘hidden’ notes, usually quite high in pitch, which are found within any given sound, like the additional colours of the spectrum that are contained within white light. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z So very small differences in the mouth and lips can mean the wrong harmonic comes out. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Predict the next four sets of octaves in a harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Which harmonics have an interval of a fourth? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In that case, the string halves will give the first harmonic, the string thirds will give the second harmonic and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Thus a bugle player can play any note in the harmonic series of the instrument that falls within the player's range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A brass instrument could play only the notes of one harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There are many combinations of notes that share some harmonics and make a pleasant sound together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For example, the interval between the seventh and eighth harmonics is a major second, but so are the intervals between 8 and 9, between 9 and 10, and between 10 and 11. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z At each slide "position," the instrument gets a new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The sound of a gong or cymbals will include overtones that aren't harmonics; that's why the gong's sound doesn't seem to have as definite a pitch as the vibrating string does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For the purposes of understanding music theory, however, the important thing about standing waves in winds is this: the harmonic series they produce is essentially the same as the harmonic series on a string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For example, a bugle can play only the notes of a specific harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If you are uncertain what someone means when they refer to "the second harmonic" or "overtones," ask for clarification. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Each valve opens an extra length of tube, making the instrument a little longer, and making available a whole new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Bottle,” Xan said, trying to ignore the harmonics ringing in her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The reason is that, as we saw as part of ‘musical gravity’ in the last chapter, these three harmonic centres are the most inherently powerful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We don't hear the harmonics as separate notes, but we do hear them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The waves of the third harmonic must be a third the length of the first harmonic, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A harmonic series can start on any note, so there are many harmonic series, but every harmonic series has the same set of intervals and the same frequency ratios. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So the ratio7l of the frequencies of the second to the third harmonics is 2:3. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Composers of the mid- to late-eighteenth century limited themselves to a small choice of chords partly as a reaction to the harmonic style of their predecessors, but also to emphasise the primacy of the melody. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A dulcet chorus of voices suddenly rose from the inside of the tent, beautiful and harmonic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z These different pitches are called harmonics, and they are blended together so well that you do not hear them as separate notes at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Each of these fractions also produces a harmonic. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 6.1: Here are the first sixteen pitches in a harmonic series that starts on a C natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This has a direct effect on the frequency and pitch of harmonics, and so it affects the basics of music tremendously. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His harmonic experiments flowed freely into later incarnations of jazz, the origins of which were most certainly not European, and have become part of a common musical heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Name three other harmonics that will also be A's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Pure intervals are the ones found in the harmonic series, with very simple frequency ratios. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z To "play a harmonic," the string is touched very, very lightly instead. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “As it gets closer it starts to affect gravity, to affect time. Musically things pull apart. Microtones start to creep in. The harmonic rhythm gets slower.” ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Glass is boldly symphonic in one moment, softly insistent the next, weaving a harmonic tapestry that becomes part of the visual fabric on stage. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z It flows over and about the outlines of its harmonic riverbed, and freed of any set rhythm. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Although the haunting harmonics of the third dance momentarily got the best of Prescott, she managed to mimic the sound of a lonely village fiddler. Char Prescott and Ryo Yanagitani perform varied program in S&R Foundation’s opener Witness how he caressed the harmonic detours of Salvatore Sciarrino’s cadenzas, and chased the rondo so keenly that it threatened constantly to break its structural limits. Met Orchestra With Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z His numerous works — a sizable body of skillfully fashioned, traditionally structured scores, written mostly in a pungently chromatic harmonic language alive with intricate contrapuntal writing — do not turn up today as often as they deserve. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z Elsewhere there were songs of lesser turbulence — a new ballad, “Hyperpathos,” revolved around the slow permutation of a scintillating harmonic sequence — but it all kept coming back to the keyboard as a gravitational center. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z With his pioneering harmonic language, the sensual beauty of his sound and his uncanny, Freudian instincts for tapping the unconscious, Debussy was the bridge over which music passed into the tumultuous 20th century. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z The harmonic intensity of Rameau, in particular, is exceptional. Classical Music This Week: The Met’s ‘Otello,’ San Francisco Opera and Rameau 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Minor keys and Middle Eastern harmonic modes are everywhere; the rhythms move at a steady clop. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The big group, playing free of harmonic structures and foot-tapping rhythm, gives the succession and shift of musical events a tumultuous, organic flow. Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The 12 sonatas of Opus 1 by Giustini are harmonic links between the late Baroque and early Classical periods. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z But Thompson’s writing contained unusual turns: a chord change on every other beat in the étudelike “Monsoon”; a waltz with unusual harmonic wending in “Soul-Lullaby”; a masked blues form in the theme of “Prey-Loot.” Music Review: A Jazz Pianist Pays Tribute to a Neglected Composer 2009-12-17T06:09:00Z But he rejected the notion that such a harmonic nod represented any kind of nostalgia. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But he combined them with genius orchestration, gorgeous melodies, and rich and innovative harmonic constructions. Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z Vijay Iyer wrote the longest overture in “Run,” a piece that builds on the C-major harmonic series as an extension of Bach’s piece in that key, the “home key” of the cello’s tuning. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z “As Germans, we were being taught primarily melodic and harmonic structures,” he said. Pacific Mambo Orchestra Is Unknown No More 2014-03-14T22:13:54Z But most of the pieces are ruminative and lyrical, with lacy spiraling figures, searching melodic lines, tender tunes played in hushed harmonics. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z Using rather conservative harmonic and rhythmic materials, Park’s “Burlesque” wove idiomatic writing for both instruments into a compelling dialogue. 16-year-old violinist SooBenn Lee makes a shining Washington debut 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Just as Mr. Zorn considers “Dark River” a précis of “Redbird,” so is “Praise” a précis of “Blue Stratagem,” the piece he eventually made for the brass quintet, featuring the same harmonic motion. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Phrasing and harmonic sensibility and polyphonic sense — all that background we have in common. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z In the first movement, the cello initiates many of the daring harmonic progressions, and Mr. Watkins played as if he relished the role of resident hothead that Beethoven here assigns to the cello. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z “Only a woman could have discovered harmony that was never used before in the history of harmonic movement.” The many layers — and lovers — of Joni Mitchell 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet, aided by Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra, she was attentive to every wayward melodic twist and curious harmonic shift. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z As the musician Sami Linna has pointed out, Mr. Tyner’s right-hand clusters allowed him to imply the harmonic clarity that his left hand eschewed. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Samara Joy’s harmonic ideas are riveting enough and her voice so infectious that it doesn’t feel like an exercise. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z This little harmonic discovery has possible profound implications. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z But their songs contained all manner of complexities: rhythmic and harmonic, as well as tonal, political, philosophical and metaphysical. Review: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Harmonic and Political Still 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords, though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The color harmonics are as remarkable as ever. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z One of Schumann’s great discoveries was the power of an underexploited area of the harmonic universe. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Hahn sustained an epic sense of line through cycles of harmonic tension and release, driving the music to its ecstatic climaxes with utter inevitability and retreating inward with doleful whispers. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z These pieces share an unspoken emphasis on swinging rhythm and sly harmonic irresolution, as if to recall the earliest blush of free improvisation in the early 1960s. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z The score’s overall tone is lyrical and flexibly tonal, open to the harmonic and coloristic byways that the drama’s shifting settings and emotions demand. ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z This harmonic, Midwestern folk band seems handcrafted for Seattle audiences. Arts highlights: Keith Urban, Teatro Zinzanni 2011-09-21T22:50:16Z This is a strong postbop collective with plenty of moves at its command: advanced rhythmic calculus, sly harmonic implication, cohesive elasticity, brute force. Music Review: Tarbaby, Featuring Oliver Lake, at the Jazz Standard 2013-09-04T20:52:20Z For some years, Frey has been fascinated by a technique he calls “halftone harmonics,” in which a string player uses special fingering to coax two neighboring pitches from a single string, with whispery overtones attached. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The work exists in two harmonic worlds as well. Guo Wenjing’s ‘Feng Yi Te’ Mixes East and West 2012-07-20T17:11:45Z Only after an extended bit of this quizzical music do the other two strings join in, first playing bits of arpeggios, then landing on sustained tones to provide harmonic support. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z The orchestra overture depicts the “Representation of Chaos” in the cosmos through daring music that at times evades stable harmonic zones and is run through with passing dissonance, like stray motifs in search of cohesion. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z Finally, amid eerie twitterings and harmonics from the strings, the piano plays a simple line that dwindles off, like the emanations of a distant planet. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Saariaho conceived the two characters as having different harmonic languages that eventually merge. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The flutes echo the melodic line, like an act of kindness, and the strings provide harmonic reinforcement. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z All of these movements produced different results — rubbings and harmonics and glissandos and single tones and rough noise — and the switching among them was as much a part of the improvisation as the sound. Review: The Cellist Okkyung Lee Tests Extended Technique’s Boundaries 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Allen did less to evoke Mr. Taylor’s signature, while fully inhabiting his style, with a crystalline touch and an oblique harmonic logic. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At one point he set up a clave pattern in 7/8 meter, using the muffled clatter of his fingers on the keypads, all while establishing a harmonic tapestry by means of overtones and vocalization. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: Colin Stetson - Saxophone Whiz Inspired by a Whale 2013-01-13T09:16:43Z Mr. Scott played at St. Thomas unseen, opening the concert with a few remarks about Vierne’s rich harmonic language, craftsmanship and invention. 2010-01-11T07:05:00Z Dehn’s concepts of harmonic intervals, topology and set theory entered her work; Ms. Rockburne started thinking of artworks as “visual equations.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s not as drastic a shift as the one from “Giant Steps” to “My Favorite Things,” but there is a similar relaxation of harmonic motion from “Night Dreamer” to “Juju.” The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Their movements are as synchronized as those of soldiers in formation; their voices, a harmonic convergence that finds the melody in anger. Review: ‘The Fall’ Delivers Stirring Protest in South Africa 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Add in the shaky harmonic vocal blend of the weathered threesome, and the going got plenty rough at times. Crosby, Stills, Nash and … Jazz? 2013-05-06T20:59:54Z Yet those pummeling chords, for all their raw power, are like the harmonic equivalent of hammer strokes: thump, thump, thump, thump. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The album’s sounds also include instruments invented by the composer Harry Partch — among them chromelodeon and zoomoozophone — that divide an octave into 43 steps, which are used to bend the harmonic ambience of “Insomniac’s Lullaby.” Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Lin and Mr. Marica delicately highlighted the harmonic quirks of the first movement; Mr. Lin played the elegiac viola solo beautifully. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Was that a high pianissimo soprano tone or a soft harmonic played by a distant trumpet perched on the lawn? A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes that line comes back to underline an expression of ardor; in other moments, it can be decked out with harmonic portents of danger. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z As a result, this “Venus” is further confirmation of a company with an abiding interest in bringing disparate cultures into harmonic conversation. South Africa’s Isango Ensemble beautifully remolds ‘The Magic Flute’ The Shearing sound — which had the harmonic complexity of bebop but eschewed bebop’s ferocious energy — was built on the unusual instrumentation of vibraphone, guitar, piano, bass and drums. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z And these aren’t party tricks; her soloing style on the saxophone is swift and purposeful, often moving in dashes and broad harmonic sweeps. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Perhaps in twenty years’ time someone will be able to explain these harmonic progressions theoretically,” he said to his students, six of whom accompanied him to “Salome” in Graz. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z If harmonic language were the only measure, the distance between the earliest and latest scores was not vast. Music Review: Tenebrae at Church of St. Mary the Virgin - Review 2011-11-08T23:32:06Z While he usually composes scores in full, all at once, this time he started with a simpler harmonic progression, which he wrote down on a two-line staff. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z For the third, Menzies stood directly behind me, playing ghostly calm drones of sustained harmonics that felt as they entered the mind as vibrations bypassing ear and auditory nerve. With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The majority employ his mature harmonic language, replete with rich dissonances and characteristic rhythms. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z On this album, however, Jarosz consciously avoided showing off harmonic knowledge or dexterity, which made working on it something of a breakthrough. Sarah Jarosz: from bluegrass jams to the Neptune 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Today, jazz drumming centers on the bass drum and snare, not the cymbals; harmonic motion is slower, more viscous. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play. Combining acute sensitivity with intellectual rigour, Williams's insight into harmonic language – its emotional and structural significance – marked the Sonata in D minor Op 31, No 2. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z The harmonic language is tonal but tart; and even with its plush string writing, the scoring is transparent. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z Their music was delightful, imperfectly performed but richly harmonic, deep-voiced and thrumming like a pride of bullfrogs along the empty stone corridor. In Luxembourg, a Long Ride Across a Small Country 2012-09-21T18:37:43Z Mozart and Haydn inspired Beethoven’s early sonatas, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with bold new ideas and unexpected forms and harmonic shifts. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z Each shows the same craftsmanship and harmonic instincts; there's not a note out of place or a phrase that seems second-hand. Bennett: My Dancing Day; Serenades; Four Poems of Thomas Campion, etc 2012-08-23T20:55:01Z Mr. Rugolo’s arrangements, building on the orchestra’s aggressive, blasting style, moved into the complex harmonic and rhythmic territory that defined the Kenton sound of those years. Pete Rugolo, Arranger and Composer, Is Dead at 95 2011-10-19T04:53:00Z The harmonic progressions in Monteverdi’s madrigals challenged conventions of the time and prompted an attack from the conservative theorist Giovanni Artusi. Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And the brothers spent the rehearsal tinkering with the score and its possibilities, seeking to heighten its rally-like forcefulness and its harmonic contrasts. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Full-bodied notes thinned out into airy harmonics, bows drawn close to the bridge created metallic sighs, fingers slid up the fingerboard to evoke a swooping motion. Review: A Musical Homage to Aviation, From Plato to Earhart 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Over the course of four albums, she’s grown only more adept at crafting tunes of slow and big harmonic movement, with quick, tensile rhythms that keep them feeling agile. The Playlist: Mary J. Blige Sings of Self-Empowerment, Kendrick Lamar Raps About Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The sound Mr. Sanders drew from his tenor saxophone was a force of nature: burly, throbbing and encompassing, steeped in deep blues and drawing on extended technique to create shrieking harmonics and imposing multiphonics. Pharoah Sanders, Whose Saxophone Was a Force of Nature, Dies at 81 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He highlighted the buzzing inner voices and lush harmonic details in the scherzo. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z Strummed or fingerpicked, the songs settle on cycles of a small number of chords: standard vocabulary, not many surprises, not much harmonic motion. Kurt Vile and War on Drugs Share a Middle Ground 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The symphonies combine seemingly disparate qualities of late Romantic fervor, rustic colors, folksy elements, advanced chromatic harmonic writing, mystical strangeness and spurts of wildness, all conveyed in Mr. Gilbert’s vivid readings. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z But the piece swims by at mostly quick tempos in a quick harmonic rhythm. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z This slowly transforming soundscape is one feature that distinguishes minimalism from the more rapid, goal-oriented harmonic movement of most Western music. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Kaderabek’s arsenal includes a slow opening unison figure that sounds vaguely folkloric; then the individual instruments peel off to investigate separate rhythmic and harmonic worlds. Music Review: Dramatic Brush Strokes From Strings 2011-07-25T21:45:25Z It quickly became a blitzkrieg from Roney, blowing hard and with only the loosest connection to its harmonic framework. At Blues Alley, a five-alarm set from Miles Davis protege Wallace Roney 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Yan’s understated wit runs through these pages like a snake through fallen leaves, but if you don’t appreciate the harmonic repetitions of his narrative, it will seem maddeningly dull. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z It is a fascinating work that returns again and again to rhapsodic slow sections bursting with exotic colors, including solo trills on the same note, alternating between the oboe’s regular and harmonic fingerings. BSO debut of ‘Oboe Concerto’ bursts with trills and colors 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z A melodic line is sheltered by another line that outlines the harmonic spectrum, causing the melody to grow into something more oracular than auricular. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z During the reflective second movement and the bustling, densely layered yet always lucidly textured last movement, Mr. Lindberg’s distinctive harmonic language came through, neither tonal nor atonal, but shimmering, diaphanous and pungent. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z Parker took the harmonic structures of popular songs, and of his own compositions, and complexified them, extending the range of improvisations into exotically chromatic realms. Ornette Coleman’s Revolution 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And when it harmonizes, it’s not giving the harmonic structure underneath. Robert Taub?s MuseAmi Creates Music Software 2010-08-20T20:25:00Z Ringing harmonics evoked funereal bells; when actual bells tolled outside the church near the end, they seemed to fit. Critic?s Notebook: Robert Ashley?s Legacy Assessed 2011-11-08T23:29:40Z Squealing in the upper harmonic reaches of the violin are echoed by barely audible squeaks in the orchestral violins, along with taps at the top registers of a distant piano and xylophone. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Even with the Post-it notes offering guidance, the precision with which Mr. Antonio and Mr. Greenberg drew harmonic patterns from the dense web of strings was dazzling. Review: Yarn/Wire Plucks and Strikes, Rubs and Strums 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But when those voices suddenly gathered into dense harmonic clouds, the effect was heavenly. Beach Boys dazzle at Chateau Ste. Michelle concert 2012-07-14T20:12:17Z Still, accessibility doesn’t imply compromise: Ms. Koh and Mr. Karttunen had their hands full with eerily whistling false harmonics and other intricate technical devices. Music Review: Two by a Finnish Composer, and Variations Inspired by a Birthday 2011-05-11T21:41:23Z “Now I’m paying more attention to the melodies and harmonics of all these songs I’m singing,” she said. Samara Joy’s Voice (and Social Media) Is Helping Jazz Find Fresh Ears 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The ending of the Agnus Dei unfurls a chain of lush harmonic suspensions, underlining the fervency of the plea for peace by one who had seen his share of ecumenical conflict. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z There are all manner of tremolo effects and eerie harmonics. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z He emphasized the flinty harmonic writing and jagged edges of Copland’s 1930 Piano Variations, this composer’s most modernist work for the instrument. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The overall effect is of a smoothly unfurling carpet — reminiscent of Philip Glass in its unhurried yet wrenching harmonic progressions — atop which voices soar. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s a universe I was so taken by; his harmonic world and his emotional world is like nobody else’s. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In Ravel’s hands, the comic concept — that a clockmaker’s lusty wife needs her mechanism regulated — is applied lightly throughout in a work that mixes sumptuous orchestration and harmonic color with burlesque antics. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The harmonic language shifts from sustained passages of holistic harmonies to piercing, grating, dissonant eruptions. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In “Dorian Horizon,” the harmonic areole of 17 shimmering strings was more real than a rainbow. 20 years after his death, Toru Takemitsu still sending signals in his music 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z From his first notes, Green made clear his strengths as soloist: gleaming tone, ample harmonic imagination and one of the best right hands in the business. The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z A wide variety of rhythmic and harmonic combinations emerged from the meditative hum of this ensemble. Review: ‘The Force of Things,’ an Indirectly Audible Opera 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Overall the harmonic language is modernist and steely. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z The overture, “Glass,” opens in dreamy quietude, with bowed bass and pinging guitar harmonics; Mr. Malaby appears only after several minutes, projecting his soprano in a strong, focused beam. Review: Tony Malaby, Weaving Spells With Paloma Recio 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Speed will lead Pachora, a quartet exploring rhythms and harmonic modes from Balkan music and other Mediterranean traditions. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The harmonic writing is piercing and precise; the mood ambiguous, at once pensive and restless. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z And while some other composers limit their microtonal adventures to slow-moving works with relatively few, and gradual, harmonic changes, Mr. Johnston’s string quartets include fast passages made up of dazzling, hyperkinetic streams of notes. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Roney made nearly 20 albums as a bandleader, including three for Warner Bros. at the peak of the Young Lions era, all grounded in his unshakable linguistic command and his appetite for harmonic adventure. Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso, Is Dead at 59 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The bowed ensemble sound together against the plucked virtuosities of lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, harmonic suspensions clash in despair and resolve in consolation. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z A section called “Christmas Music From Medieval Hungary” included chant and an arresting four-voice motet in an unusual harmonic and contrapuntal style. Music Review: Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition 2010-12-16T05:00:06Z The work concludes, as it began, with an oboe duet, subtly altered to give harmonic resolution, and the Child cries a final "Maman". Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z I hate well-behaved fanfares, the sort with clever little harmonic sidesteps and neat academic counterpoint. Mark-Anthony Turnage: how I composed a fanfare for the Proms 2012-07-12T19:59:02Z “His melodic and harmonic practices were from a Western point of view,” Mr. Botstein said. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z There’s steady rhythm and a few levels of harmonic motion from the different instruments, some repeated and steady, some wayward. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z If some of the main motifs sounded a bit simplistic, it didn't take long before Mazurek and friends transformed them with considerable melodic variation and harmonic complexity. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z Nevertheless, it doesn't strike the type of harmonic balance that, say, the show's humor achieves by equalizing the arch and the ludicrous with empathy for its characters. "Only Murders in the Building" returns with an invitation to the familliar 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The Fantasia contains many of Vaughan Williams's trademarks, particularly the way he whets his chord harmonics with the flattened seventh, a staple of English folk, and the minor third, the key feature of Tallis's setting. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z “A whole note could represent four bars, eight bars, 12 bars, 16 bars,” but the “glue has to be harmonic” — “has to be spinning out the triad and spinning out the harmony.” Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Amid the rippling piano runs and fanciful violin writing, this music pulses with rigorous counterpoint and brittle harmonic writing that recall Stravinsky. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z The exciting dissonances and strange harmonic colours set Pękiel in a category of his own. Pękiel: Masses – review 2013-05-25T23:05:17Z The piece runs just over 14 minutes; the music is compact, spare and restless, written in a harmonic language you might call soft-edged modernism. Classical Recordings: Renée Fleming’s ‘Poèmes’ With Alan Gilbert and Seiji Ozawa 2012-06-01T14:08:50Z It’s been 15 years since Roberts — an erudite pianist with variegated harmonic texture — last played the Vanguard. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The dislocations in his style, which combines gallantry with harmonic restlessness, reflect these open-ended realities; so should this two-night stand, with George Cables on piano, Joseph Lepore on bass and Jason Brown on drums. Jazz Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Or the precisely calibrated, flowing harmonics of the cellist Julian Schwarz, forming a liquid undercurrent to the first section, “Liturgy of Crystal.” Music Review: Chamberfest With Juilliard Students at Paul Hall 2012-01-19T23:25:59Z Only then did he set about constructing what he later felt was one of his most coherent works, coherence for him standing higher in the hierarchy of aims than any melodic, harmonic or colouristic features. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z Perhaps his musical gifts — his innumerable melodies, his harmonic convolutions, his endearing voice — are so prodigious that they overwhelm any skepticism. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The jazz bassist Mark Dresser has a long and serious track record in the avant-garde, with special distinction in the area of extended technique: harmonics, multiphonics, various other nonstandard expressive modes. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Even as he spent a good portion of the late 1960s and ’70s exploring harmonic and rhythmic abstraction, Mr. Foster never quite surrendered to it. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z When telling a story through music, she contemplates melodic and harmonic signifiers as a way to reveal character. Her opera helps a Pakistani rape survivor find a louder voice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z "Standing waves form a stand-alone, amplified harmonic that only appears in between two frequencies within a circuit, and Joe certainly draws science and art into one circuit and amplifies their resonance." Review: Scientist-artist Joe Davis' mind-bending works at UW gallery 2011-02-10T20:56:03Z Mr. Martineau played sensitively, with special alertness to the dissonant elements that activate Schumann’s harmonic language. Review: A Soprano’s Sudden Solo Act 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Not outward, but something very, very deep and sincere, which has to do, I suppose, with the modulations — with the harmonic language, which is unlike that of many other composers. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Such pieces may be technically tough to sing, but with their unexpected harmonic turns and melodies they’re sublime to the ear. Celebrate choral Britten with Esoterics, Seattle Pro Musica 2013-12-05T20:41:59Z The piece is, by intention, in one style and harmonic area for its entire length, but Miller and the musicians shaped the work effectively around several thrilling climax points. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The chorus captured the harmonic intricacies of chorales with micro-tuned flawlessness. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Unlike Stevie Wonder or the late Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, he was not a remarkable instrumentalist whose grasp of harmonic complexity across genres was part of his legacy. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Rimsky-Korsakov, a master of harmonic fantasy and orchestral color, died in June, 1908. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Particularly striking were No. 8, with its graceful, bowed melody offset by almost continuous left-hand pizzicato counterpoint; No. 10, a study in icy harmonics; and the spare, harmonically brash No. 13. Music Review: New-Music Champion Inches Toward the Standard Repertory 2011-01-20T00:30:17Z A Norwegian postbop guitarist with a knack for streamlining all manner of rhythmic and harmonic complexities, Mr. Lund shares a core aesthetic with the alto saxophonist Greg Osby, who joins him here. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The experimental cantata, not performed until 1939, also evokes Scriabin’s harmonic language. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z And in the bridge to “Aluminum Baby,” arranged as a rumba of sorts, there was a brief rhythmic hiccup to accompany a restless harmonic turn. Music Review: Honoring a Jazz Pianist and Mentor (Without Using a Single Jazz Piano) 2010-10-11T21:54:00Z Schoenberg's brand of modernism was built upon Brahms's classicism just as much as it depended upon Wagner's harmonic emancipation. Brahms: Fantasies Op 116; Handel Variations and Fugue Op 24; Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces Op 19; Suite Op 25 2010-08-26T21:32:00Z Also impressive is the sense of narrative it creates over half an hour as it builds out a motif of just five notes: a flourish of three harmonics that settles down to two more tones. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The Fall is not an unlikely tribute to Salford's finest but a superb collision of a gentle house piano and harmonic ambience reminiscent of 10cc's I'm Not in Love. Rhye: Woman – review 2013-03-07T22:00:01Z The pivotal chapter in “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions” is entitled “Chernomor to Kashchey: Harmonic Sorcery”; it drastically revises the standard narrative of harmonic developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He dangled the wonderfully surprising harmonic twists of the 25th variation like tempting bait and arrived at the 30th variation, a lighthearted folk song, with a deserved note of triumph. Sam Post’s confident — yet equally sensitive — take on Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z He goes on to demonstrates how harmonic music like Mozart's Marriage of Figaro calms brain waves, while other kinds of music make the brain waves go crazy. "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z Also on the program were Telemann’s Violin Concerto in A minor, given a brooding and fiery performance, and a little-known work by Nicola Matteis, a set of variations on a repeating, four-measure harmonic pattern. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z His fellow musicians admired his imagination, his versatility and his distinctive style, which blended the urbanity and rhythmic drive of the Harlem stride pianists, the dexterity of Art Tatum and the harmonic daring of bebop. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z The group’s urgent flow and turbid harmonic beauty have made it one of the few obvious answers to the question, “What’s exciting in jazz today?” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It flows in undulating rivers of soul, funk, punk and rap, with harmonic clashes and convergences of all of the above that are Mr. Friedman’s own. ‘Fortress of Solitude,’ Now With Musical Numbers, at the Public Theater 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z As his words explore the complicated, often harsh truths about life and relationships, his swelling ballads convey an unalloyed romantic yearning in the harmonic language of Puccini. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z The piano sometimes steps back to provide bare harmonic support. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The guitarist and vocalist Camila Meza, who hails from Chile but lives in New York, allows harmonic development to guide the weaving momentum of her compositions. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z But this highly varied set is more explicitly classical in its harmonic mobility and melodic flourishes and more elaborately composed than Jarrett's work. Gwilym Simcock: Good Days at Schloss Elmau 2011-02-10T22:31:01Z Just as there are robust examples in its repertoire, Rwandan dance also has a soft, harmonic side that emphasizes the movement of the arms. DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z He writes beautifully for orchestra, and the harmonic world is beautiful and distinctive. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z The work highlights many components of his aesthetic, like an adventurous harmonic language and instrumental techniques including the so-called Bartok pizzicato — in which the string bounces against the fingerboard and produces a metallic sound. Music Review: Brentano String Quartet Plays Hadyn, Mozart and Bartok 2012-12-17T22:55:08Z In a preconcert discussion, Mr. Drucker said a listener might hear echoes of Bartok, his favorite composer, and the harmonic language of Berg and the Second Viennese School, an aesthetic that resonates strongly with him. Music Review: A Violinist and Novelist, and, Yes, Composer 2011-02-04T22:32:02Z Fracture aside, the music keeps a sense of togetherness, albeit at dynamic and harmonic extremities. Chaya Czernowin’s ‘Wintersongs’ at Miller Theater 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z This meditative piece worked best when the mood was quiet and undulating, especially in the passage in high harmonics near the end, so otherworldly in sound, almost like a theremin. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The concerto seems frozen between states, its harmonic center melting away without ever evaporating, but in Mälkki’s expert hands, it could sound almost traditional in structure. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z “It starts out with really high harmonics on the strings and bowed vibes,” Z said. Composers Give New Shape to Ornette Coleman’s Jazz 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Levine tapped into the mellow harmonic richness and wistful poignancy of the music, almost as if offering Sachs consolation, as if urging him not to lose his faith in people. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The latter's harmonic idiom – often called atonal – also diverges strongly from Stravinsky's approach, which is essentially modal and hardly further removed from tonality than the work of his Parisian friends Debussy and Ravel. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z Ms. Wiening, a young drummer, plays original music with a planar, modulating harmonic language and a propulsive drift. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Cartwright and Dyson exchange murmuring lines on Softly after a theme of gleaming harmonics, and push each other more insistently in the later stages of a live All the Things You Are. Deirdre Cartwright/Kathy Dyson: Emily Remembered ? review 2011-02-17T22:01:00Z That influence was more harmonic: I learned juicier chord progressions. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Many of the most memorable moments of the night sprung from the star's harmonic, frequently comic camaraderie with backup vocalist Kelly Hogan, a veteran singer-songwriter in her own right. Neko Case powerful and giddy at the Paramount 2011-07-11T22:07:04Z The music opens out from a lone strummed guitar to full band, with harmonic ambiguity built into the chords. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Wagner puts Walther’s song in slow motion, with different harmonic settings, and Sachs speaks over it with this descending bass line; the song is boring deeper into his conscience, into his soul. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Best performance you probably didn’t see: Roomful of Teeth, an a cappella quartet who won for best chamber music performance, brought a mesmerizing mix of avant-garde harmonics and lush, hushed beauty. Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis big early winners 2014-01-27T01:01:00Z Mr. Rodgers is equally interested in harmonic theory, groove and coldblooded hit making. Nile Rodgers?s New Music Memoir Is ?Le Freak? 2011-10-19T23:27:51Z By using higher partials from the harmonic series — the 11th, the 13th and even the 31st — he requires players to listen for and perform ever more narrow pitch differences, some just a few cents apart. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z There was, for instance, little evidence of the use of pulse and familiar harmonic cadences that made stars of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z In the process, these siblings come to embody a more harmonic vision for the country, a big two-hearted slipstream that may yet carry us away from “the hellhounds on the trail.” Steve Erickson’s ‘Shadowbahn’ is the best kind of experimental novel 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “Toshi Ichiyanagi’s ‘Music for Piano No. 4’ explored the harmonics of hand-stroked piano strings,” the report said, “and apparently, though frequently inaudible, the sounds to be derived from thrumming on the instrument’s wooden framework.” Toshi Ichiyanagi, Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist, Dies at 89 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The violin part to her songs was more rigorously technical, with complex pizzicato passages, Romantic cadenzas and harmonic modulations that evoked an Appalachian Bach. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z “It’s an open, infinite spiral, a kind of harmonic questing and adventuring that is based on natural phenomena and on pitches generated one from the next. There’s a lot of beauty in the structure.” Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Coltrane himself, after going all the way to the fastest, most intellectual harmonic jazz, in 1959, with “Giant Steps,” backed off relentless changing harmony to seek more space and blues. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Ung, who was born in Cambodia and is on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, is known for colorfully scored works that meld contemporary Western harmonic language with Cambodian folk elements. ArtsBeat: Asian Cultural Council Divides the Prize for Rockefeller Awards 2014-04-14T16:04:56Z But if you listen to the actual harmonic language, it’s very triad-based. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z "A lot of people are looking for something in music that is not harmonic or sonata form," said Kuusisto. Classical trio hopes to induce sleep 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The gesture takes form next, in “A Weeping of Doves,” as wailing vocalise; and is subtler in “Night-Shining Clouds,” as the slowly sloping sheen of harmonics in the strings. Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Her structures skipped beats, made sly harmonic turns and took startling melodic leaps. Music Review: Her Folksy Parlor, Crowded With Family and Friends 2011-05-15T22:02:17Z The guests found a perfect harmonic blend on “The Boy From New York City.” Review: ‘Songs of the City,’ a Paean to New York at 92nd Street Y 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The Tuvan overtone technique involves producing a droning note that is raised and lowered by opening and closing the vocal cords until harmonic resonances appear. Hey, what's that sound: Throat singing 2010-06-02T12:02:00Z In the opening Allegro of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata Op 53, for instance, which began his Cheltenham festival recital, the sheer exuberance with which every harmonic excursion was presented made the performance tinglingly fresh. Leif Ove Andsnes ? review 2011-07-07T17:15:00Z The music was highly detailed, full of terse harmonic frictions and oblong rhythmic constructions, but it often had a spontaneous dynamism traceable to Mr. Weiss, through his well-placed flare-ups of lightly clattering funk. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z The opening slow symphonic whooshes recall the harmonic palette of that record, so the songs, at first, only trigger memories of “The Golden Age” and “Lost Cause.” Lou Barlow: “The thing that I equate most with Beck is generosity” 2014-02-26T00:32:00Z Yet the vibrant Ms. Manson works effectively to bring transparency and balance to the orchestra, without loss of plush colors and harmonic intensity. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z The Gavotte, for example, blends a lighthearted dance with bold harmonic quirks. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z This is what lends tangy flavors and impish energy to his harmonic language. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But there was also plenty of harmonic action embedded in the tunes. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z When I heard Paul Bley’s piano solo, a whole new universe of harmonic possibilities opened up for me,” guitarist Pat Metheny told the Ottawa Citizen. Paul Bley, innovative pianist in modern jazz, dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z In Mr. Coleman’s “Metonymies of Pastness” for solo piano the music alternated between brooding darkness, chirpy clarity and an iridescent harmonic mist. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Minimal gesture, maximum effect: nearly seven minutes of lyrical serenity and hushed, harmonic stillness. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Two of those were by Mr. Copland, who brought a welcome shimmer of harmonic ambiguity to the group, along with an observant calm. Music Review: Greg Osby at the Vanguard, Without Nostalgia 2010-08-04T22:41:00Z Indeed, Coleman freed it of its reliance on familiar chord changes and harmonic structures. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z But at the same time there is a signature in my music — sometimes it’s harmonic, and sometimes it’s just in the quirkiness of things. Patrick Adams, Master of New York’s Underground Disco Scene, Dies at 72 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The lay reader, however, will struggle with the sheer amount of harmonic, structural and rhythmic analysis here. Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Even this show’s early numbers, extolling the homespun virtues of small-town life with harmonic “aahs” and folksy bluegrass chords, have a depressive undertow. Review: ’Groundhog Day,’ All Over Again, Now With Song and Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “She knows what she was doing in terms of voice leading and harmonic progressions,” Binkholder says. Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Few do heavy and harmonic as well as this grunge-indebted trio on its colossal new album, which the band celebrates with a July 29 show at Fremont’s Bar House. 15 of the best Seattle albums of 2021 (so far) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Miles took his own solo quickly off the harmonic map, tugging against whatever structure had set in with the swing feel. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z He taught her geometry, group theory, topology, harmonic intervals. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z In its luminously percussive sound world, topped off by the gemlike precision of Synergy Vocals' interventions, its endless harmonic perspectives seem to spin off into an infinite distance. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z Strauss conveys Ophelia’s mental fragility through music filled with jagged vocal lines, weirdly dreamy flights and murky harmonic writing for the piano. Music Review: Renée Fleming Brings Vienna in Ferment to Carnegie Hall 2013-05-05T21:09:14Z A tune that started like a delicately harmonized jazz ballad became a labyrinthine harmonic tease, with each potential resolution flowering into a new episode instead. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z While nodding to the nation’s bicentennial of the previous year, the sculpture figuratively connects earth and starry heavens, urging a harmonic, cosmic perspective redolent of the Aquarian dreams of the 1960s, Mr. Oppenheim’s formative years. Dennis Oppenheim, a Sculptor Who Moved Heaven and Earth 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Some might spotlight the chords as the harmonic tension builds, others the high violins hammering at the symphony’s main motif. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “He gets sounds that aren’t necessarily guitar sounds — a lot of harmonics, textures that happen just because of how he picks.” Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps in music, too, the harmonic progression holds its own geometric logic that needs to be honored before we consider the virtuosic embellishments above it? Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z “Young writes in an almost harmonic register,” David Orr writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The striking harmonic effects were vividly conveyed by the Emerson in its intelligently wrought interpretation. Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z When you notice the piano, it always seems to be descending the scale, yet it’s also bathing us in a kind of harmonic reassurance. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z There’s a real swing feeling to that, but the harmonic vocabulary is completely modern. For the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Just This Once, Every Night Is Monday Night 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The harmonic reaches he goes to — it’s like going to Mars and back, sometimes, and not really even knowing it.” Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play Seattle May 7 2013-05-02T21:28:14Z And Mr. Dingman, the harmonic center of the band, voiced even oblique chords with a crushed-velvet touch, letting them resonate softly in the room. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z But for the listener, at least this one, the piece unfolds with a restless, narrative sweep in a cram-packed, pungent harmonic language. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z But the playing was not without a few blemishes, including in double-stops and on harmonic notes here and there. Review | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays on, and with gusto, despite no new contract 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The new suite began with Michael Gandolfi’s homage “Mirrors and Sidesteps,” intriguingly murky and fanciful music with modern harmonic twists, fractured phrases and hints of “Davidsbündlertänze.” Review: David Kaplan Riffs on Schumann’s Spirit 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But most of the trio’s hallmarks are here: resonant lyricism, floating locomotion, a harmonic approach that brings depth to simple structures and sleekness to the more complex ones. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z The finale, “Spirals: Life Force,” was an oozing, Coplandesque harmonic flux. Review | National Gallery’s East Garden Court doesn’t do any favors for Parker Quartet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Next up was the album’s title track, which treads some of the same harmonic turf but with a more changeable approach to tempo, ratcheting up at a moment’s notice. Music Review: Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-03-28T21:59:28Z Beethoven was a master of musical morphing, obsessing on a detail of melodic or harmonic or rhythmic motive and transmogrifying its soul into something unexpected. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “Every idea, whether gestural, melodic or harmonic, is expressed through rhythm.” An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s nothing but harmonics effects, and in a church, it’ll be perfect. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z From the outset that means there’s no melodic or harmonic stimulus for Mr. Hall to bend toward or push against. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z When chords blur together it becomes almost impossible to make sense of harmonic progression. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z Photograph: Chris Christodoulou Bach's supreme ability to use order and clarity to express the inexpressible while also taking outrageous harmonic risks was nowhere more evident than in Joanna MacGregor's peerless interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z I’d agree, and add that it’s also one of his most terrifying, which they teased out by building on its harmonic ambiguity for a tension almost as discomfiting as the thought of death itself. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to stretch my harmonic palette to a few notes that don’t belong,” she said. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Gibbs's shimmering, meditative 1993 piece Something Similar was a showcase for his haunting harmonic sense. Mike Gibbs ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:40Z Few jazz composers have ever mingled autumnal lyricism with a deceptive strength and an instantly identifiable harmonic palette as hauntingly as Wheeler has done. Kenny Wheeler Quintet – review 2013-01-17T17:48:37Z Using reverberating plucked notes and whistling harmonics, he created the illusion of space and the acoustics of abandoned industrial architecture. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, Byers captured a sense of the original through pizzicato and added something wonderfully fresh with ghostly bowed harmonics. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The fascination with the harmonics lasts only so long. David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Gordon’s harmonic style, with wide-open, sturdy, wistful chords, owes much to Copland’s generation of American symphonists. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z She inhabits an entire stratosphere of hyperventilated harmonics. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z A harmonic disturbance in the final chord suggests that Hannah’s fulfillment is not so complete. ‘As One’ Has Its Premiere in Brooklyn 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The harmonic language combines tart modern, milky Impressionist sonorities with echoes of modal French sacred music from earlier times. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z In these, the depiction of a liminal soundworld, with its haunting harmonics, was invested with a ghostly calm by the Vertavo. Vertavo String Quartet – review 2013-06-11T18:09:14Z Two-voice counterpoint in one hand, sophisticated harmonic progressions, virtuoso pedaling and registration changes that never broke the rhythm . . . well. NSO lineup is all-American, from composers to featured artists 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z To up the ante, she made sure the guitar she used was only tuned once a month, “so it would develop these harmonics that made it automatic art,” she explained. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Here and there, passages of gritty harmonic intensity, brief eruptions of skittish instrumental lines, and other restless touches remind you that he earned a doctorate at Princeton under the serialist Milton Babbitt. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Davies' big strength as a writer was ballads, which he imbued with surprising harmonic turns and distilled lyrics. Seattle musicians celebrate the songs of Ron Davies 2011-06-22T22:00:06Z The piece even evokes the Baroque form of the chaconne, in which variations are spun over a repeated harmonic sequence. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z That newness prevents your ears from coasting on comfortable harmonic patterns and forces you to engage with the ideas they give shape to. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z But the orchestra injects soft stirrings of tension and harmonic pungency into this transfixing passage. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z I loved my indie bands but working at the club I started to pine for more complicated harmonic expressions which really affected me emotionally. Corinne Bailey Rae: Soundtrack of my Life 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z Each is accompanied with a different chord in the orchestra, an ingenious and haunting harmonic progression. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z The emphasis on clean intervals throws other parameters off kilter: Within one instrument’s melody, a given note may be tuned up or down depending on what function it plays within the ensemble’s larger harmonic structure. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Rather than lingering over harmonic progressions, O Sink Hernieder pulsated urgently. Prom 19: Tristan und Isolde – review 2013-07-28T16:59:00Z But this music draws some of its urbane charm from a French harmonic style, a point this ensemble made clear in its simmering, finely balanced performance. Music Review: ‘Luminance of Color,’ French Accent at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-07-18T21:53:29Z The imagination, the richness of melodic and harmonic invention and characterization is so wonderful, and so unique. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The hallmarks of Ms. Chen’s performance were the singing quality of her sound and her attentiveness to inner voices and harmonic shadings. Camerata RCO Joins the Pianist Weiyin Chen at SubCulture 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z More extended harmonic structures are reminiscent of Messiaen, another of Tower’s favorite composers. CD reviews: Cliburn medalist takes on Prokofiev with Fort Worth Symphony 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z There are brief echoes of jazzy dance music before the sound grows distant and disembodied, with Mr. Ehnes producing harmonics that sounded at times like a theremin. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Eaton, 75, a winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant, has an intriguing compositional voice that blends a microtonal harmonic idiom, elements of pastiche and quotations from popular songs, dances, marches and whatnot. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z Wrapping up the section, the ghostly harmonics of the second movement of Allison Loggins-Hull’s “Chasing Balance” and the whispered echoes of Chen Yi’s “Mountain Tune” seemed to emerge from the distant place of the Sarabande. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Away from the backing band’s high-decibel impact, the harmonic details of Little Big Town’s four-part vocal arrangements were in sharpest relief. Review | Little Big Town mixes searing and saccharine at the Anthem 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “That’s the same harmonic material as in the opening scene, but presented in a much more philosophical, serene, contemplative way.” Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Yet much of the harmonic language sounds lushly chromatic, in an Expressionist vein. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z With its multilayered textures and dense harmonic language, the music is hauntingly elusive, a quality conveyed in this teeming performance. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Coltrane by then had nearly exhausted his fascination with corkscrewing harmonic changes, and the group found its identity in a more rooted, incantatory sound, influenced by music traditions from across the globe. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Its dialogue between electronic and acoustic sounds is engagingly orchestrated, with players responding to clicks, bleats and gurgles with squirrely bow strokes and whistling harmonics. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It feels as if Berg was working out so many issues for society and for the musical world in his harmonic searching. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z It wandered through harmonic possibilities with Chopinesque grace, until he seized on a melodic fragment, a hint of a folk dance, that he extended and transposed, eventually dissolving it in trills. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z The audience was completely hushed, awaiting each fiddle line or banjo lick, each unexpected harmonic turn, each precise swell of three-part harmony. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z She leads a flexible ensemble of fellow South African musicians, playing original tunes that flock and enfold around open-ended harmonic patterns, pushing deep into a haze. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Coleman composed melodies that had wondrous harmonic implications—and he and his bandmates adopted those implications freely, as the inspiration struck them. Ornette Coleman’s Revolution 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Named for one of his earliest pieces, the album offers a version of the “Dorian” Short Service, hymns and responsories: beauty everywhere, and a few startling harmonic turns. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The detuning by a quarter·tone in one piccolo, clarinet, trumpet and synthesiser enabled a more accurate realisation of the harmonic series. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z In the brooding chromaticism of the slow movement, the sound of the strings meshed together nicely while Ms. Oppens allowed each harmonic resolution to translate into a slight sweetening of her sound. The Cassatt String Quartet at Bargemusic 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The technical innovations of August Duranowski, including his use of harmonics and left-hand pizzicatos, also fueled Paganini’s imagination. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z I do remember him being narrow-minded about composers who stuck essentially to tonal harmonic languages — let alone to Minimalism, which he could not abide. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Expect harmonic clouds to drift in and out of the urban hum as musicians sing and play their parts in autonomous interdependence with one another. Every Single Place Has Its Own Sound 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Coleman’s aesthetic gave intuition and spontaneity priority over harmonic structure, compositional form and pitch. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Yet in among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations the expressive equal of anything the northern Italian madrigal tradition has to offer. York Early Music festival 2010-07-12T21:30:00Z At Disney he pretentiously beat the same melodic or harmonic formulas into endless submission with background of syrupy strings and electronics. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Boccherini’s work is lighter in character, O’Neill says, yet also daring in its harmonic twists and turns, which sound most unusual for its late-18th-century time of composition. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play Seattle May 7 2013-05-02T21:28:14Z “Jacob’s Ladder,” by Mr. Crumbly, bears the harmonic imprint of Herbie Hancock, one member of that Davis band; “Time to Spare,” by Mr. Winston, evokes Wayne Shorter, another one. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z It’s a potpourri of experiments, balancing the frayed energy and funky sparring of his 1970s fusion records with layers of synthesizer and protean harmonic movement. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z But at her core, since she is such an elegant and insightful musician, she also plays with an acute sensitivity to harmonic shadings and contrapuntal complexities and, when it is called for, uncanny textural clarity. Classical Recordings: Inner Personalities of Composers and Performers 2011-04-10T02:00:18Z But where “Parsifal” exists purely in the domain of the “immaterial,” he said, “Lohengrin” alternates between the harmonic language of its title hero and the more earthbound music of the other characters. A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Before the concert, he spoke about the fifth's daunting scale, those monumental harmonic support pillars that carry the weight of its epic 80 minutes. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z Coleman, who played violin, trumpet and alto saxophone, looked beyond traditional harmonic rules, chord patterns and the American Songbook repertoire. Review: Malcolm Goldstein Offers a Freespirited Salute to Ornette Coleman 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Through all its spasms of intensity, he revealed the music’s obsessive use of thematic sequences and restless harmonic shifts. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z She has a separate history of duologue with Mr. Blake, her former mentor at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and a venerable pianist adept at fostering harmonic intrigue. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The first, Go, is an exercise in melodic flexibility, the preoccupations of the third, Apex, are mostly harmonic, while the fifth, Exeo, seems to assemble itself from a whole collection of sharply contrasted ideas. Dusapin: Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-04-15T21:30:00Z The Temptations: Papa Was A Rolling Stone Arranger: Paul Riser This epic track, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, is unusual in having no harmonic progression – it sticks rigidly to the B-flat minor chord. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z Antonov was unable to keep the perilous harmonics that open the first movement in tune with Keylin’s violin, set lower than the cello by the composer. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Without exaggerating anything, he allowed inner voices and harmonic twists to emerge. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Playing Haydn, Bartok, Debussy and Chopin 2012-02-16T23:01:45Z The music mimics the swoop and flutter of the toki while high harmonics in the strings evoke blinding bright light. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The final notes — is that a tiny chime glancing off violin harmonics? — sound like the sun igniting a metallic vein in a rock. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z While Rossini’s later operas have greater emotional depth and more harmonic and melodic invention, his confidence was there from the beginning. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z The interesting thing about him as a composer is that he has a distinct harmonic and melodic vocabulary. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Dutilleux’s mystically modern harmonic language was conveyed with radiant, penetrating sound by the orchestra; Mr. Capuçon balanced impetuosity and determination in his compelling performance. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “The melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic compositions of ‘Thinking’ are substantially and/or strikingly similar to the drum composition of ‘Let’s.'” Ed Sheeran Sued for Allegedly Copying Marvin Gaye’s 'Let's Get It On' 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Janacek’s music ingeniously blends folkloric Moravian elements, fragmented phrases and an elusive harmonic language to expose the raw undercurrents of the everyday characters. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “Eleven Echoes of Autumn,” by George Crumb, enshrouded a García Lorca quotation, spoken by the musicians, with sonorous harmonics, eerie whistling and ghostly rumbles and scrapes. Music Review: Aeolian Players at Symphony Space, Celebrating 50 Years 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z But before long, Wollschleger’s piece works a gorgeous changeup by allowing its more striated tones to flower into full motivic passages, beautiful on their own terms even as the overall harmonic world remains somber. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Even the fast-moving second section has the singing quality that was Mr. Weisgall’s trademark, and the Arioso alternates keening cantorial cello lines with delicate mystery and slow slides into glassy harmonics. Music Review: Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance 2012-06-15T22:14:58Z With each turn on the instrument, Thompson found new harmonic avenues to explore and explode. Concert review: Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson at Symphony Center 2013-03-21T06:25:00Z But there’s nothing musty about his arrangements, a sharp melding of pop melody and new-classical harmonics. Album review: Van Dyke Parks, 'Songs Cycled' 2013-07-15T23:50:00Z Like a craving for coffee or scotch, the appetite for such harmonics is also culturally conditioned. Review: Stiff shot of dissonance vibrates at Seattle chamber-music fest 2010-07-22T21:49:00Z In the left hand, Mr. Tyner stacked intervals of harmonic fourths, creating the feeling of openness he talked about in that 1963 interview. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The influence of such imagery on composers like Clérambault and D'Anglebert in France, and Froberger and Fischer in Germany, resulted in a style rooted in melodic fragmentation, extreme harmonic suspension and rhythmic dissolution. Andreas Staier: Pour Passer la Mélancholie – review 2013-03-07T21:30:01Z The flowering of Bennett's melodic and harmonic language in his recent songs and choral music, and in the Partita, I find pretty well irresistible: see what you think! A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z Expect stage diving, East Coast harmonics and lots of naughty humor. On the farm: Here are 10 must-see acts at Bonnaroo 2013-06-12T17:00:17Z The most idyllic of all can be the harmonic complicity of boss and loyal aide, the adviser who knows better and solves everything. The TV Watch: ‘Borgen,’ a Danish Political Drama Series, on Link TV 2012-10-11T22:07:07Z There were outstanding contributions from the group's cornett and trombone players, though Cavina's careful direction did not always flesh out Monteverdi's harmonic shapes or convey his sheer rhythmic vigour. La Venexiana/Cavina 2010-05-17T21:30:00Z After strange harmonic wanderings in the first movement, the work turns to a long, dazzling solo that was handled with flair by Avi Stein. Music Review: ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-12-28T23:48:01Z There are no traditional signposts of rhythm, melody or harmonic motion, just a lone, fleeting and recurring piano arpeggio, played with delicate gravitas by Ms. Ray. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z Written against a backdrop of forbidden love – loosely the theme of the concert – the music explores all varieties of string technique, most obviously mutes, harmonics, pizzicato, to create a many-layered ghost-world of sound. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z Byrd, Tallis and Bach — I think their harmonic changes are more emotional, and sometimes more radical than a lot of 19th-century composers. How William Byrd Influences Music, 400 Years After His Death 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z While he rendered various lyrical turns and harmonic shifts eloquently, he backed away from stormy, dramatic episodes. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But it keeps veering off impulsively into new directions and shifting into unexpected harmonic patches. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “Every star is, in a sense, ringing like a bell with its own internal harmonics,” says Jem Finer, a founding member of the Pogues who is also an artist and composer. The Scan: How Animals Think and Harmonic Stars 2014-03-31T21:22:13Z The melodies were unassuming, shaped with restraint, never pointed; sometimes the players dropped any attempt at expression, distilling the music to its harmonic essence almost as if it were a precursor to minimalism. Prom 7: Belcea Quartet ? review 2011-07-20T09:57:37Z Painters, sculptors, poets, composers, photographers, filmmakers and choreographers alike ventured into this new territory, struggling to sever Western art’s age-old link with legible images, narrative logic, harmonic structure and rhyme. Art Review: ‘Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,’ at MoMA 2012-12-20T22:03:36Z At the opening, percussion instruments chime on every beat, but scattered, which with a haze of sustained harmonics dissolve any sense of a downbeat. Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In the opening of the concerto, which begins with a series of ominous chords that grow in sound and intensity, Mr. Lugansky voiced each one to highlight harmonic intricacies. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z Noguchi’s art is underwritten by Modernist faith in the harmonic nature of the universe, as seen in Eastern Buddhism and Western Transcendentalism; Mr. Sachs’s work is oriented to a human-made world of systems. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Like most of Mr. Reich’s music, this sextet is notable for its rhythmic complexity, pulsing energy, ecstatic moods and harmonic shifts, here given extra resonance by shifting light patterns. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z House orders an EEG and says the Team should blast Will’s brain with harmonics to confirm. House Recap: The Parent Trap Edition 2012-03-20T13:30:50Z Unlike many bebop pianists, however, Mr. Silver emphasized melodic simplicity over harmonic complexity; his improvisations, while sophisticated, were never so intricate as to be inaccessible. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z His bizarre harmonic explorations, along with his attraction to lurid or mystical subject matter, could get him into trouble. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It's taken from a 1911 book by composer Arnold Schoenberg, in which he illuminates the harmonic language of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z “The singer might change the harmonic impulsion or narrative function.” Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z There’s a meditative self-consciousness, a sense—and perhaps this, even more than any technical or harmonic device, marks his heritage from Coltrane—of a struggle within, an effort at self-questioning and self-overcoming. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Over the decades, Young wasn’t merely sitting on the material; he was continually working on it, even designing a new tuning in just intonation, to better express some of its harmonic content. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The value of “Rite” piano arrangements is their stark focus on the work’s harmonic strangeness and rhythmic sharpness. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z There were more extreme harmonic experiments in the air – Schoenberg's first atonal works were five years old, and there are chords in Debussy and Richard Strauss as extreme as anything in the Rite. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z The sounds made by Congolese group Konono No 1 far outstrip their homemade origins, taking in systemic repetitions and harmonic complexities. This week's new live music 2011-07-08T23:07:53Z “What you want to hear is the clarity, the harmonics, the textures,” he said. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Berlioz, meanwhile, works his orchestral magic around this pattern, providing an ever shifting array of harmonic contexts. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Yet the counterpoint seems to roam all over the place and the harmonic language is vaguely like Hindemith in his Neo-Classical vein. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The way he will gently nudge a crucial left-hand note to anticipate some harmonic turning point is awesome. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z Elgar commands a mixture of harmonic mastery and originality, with a very unusual rhetoric and emotional palette. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Kerry King’s guitar solos, with whammy bar, pinched harmonics and screaming tones, become a usefully decadent element; but besides that, a Slayer set is stoic. Slayer, With New Players, at Wellmont Theater 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z He seemed less concerned with the expressive and structural significance of the harmonic writing, surely axiomatic in this context. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z This was a glimpse into the harmonic language of Mr. Haas, who writes in microtones and overtones with the power to leave you shaken. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In one scene Mr. O’Neal sits onstage at a club, flawlessly carrying off Tatum’s signature downhill sprints and herculean harmonic leaps. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z "It's in a different key," he says, "but it's the same harmonic progression." King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z His work is most impressive when games with abstraction and figuration lead to pivot points between the two languages, or call attention to a basic harmonic shift between seemingly irreconcilable visual tonalities. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z On top, Ms. Flanigan sings extended tones, making them digitally repeat as she builds up her own choir and creates her own gradual harmonic movement. New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Mälkki climbed the peak like a brazen adventurer who was also a harmonic geologist capable of examining inner workings. Three L.A. cellists save the day with last-minute musical theatrics for the Phil 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z I prefer the episodes of the cycle when Mr. Del Tredici pares down textures and writes music of pungent harmonic inventiveness and astringent details. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines," he says. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z In the quick movements of “Kreisleriana,” he unleashed mighty torrents of sound without sacrificing harmonic clarity or poise. A promising piano program but a flawed execution at the Phillips 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It sounds obvious and trivial, but if you study, say, “Götterdämmerung” or “Elektra,” to get a clear idea of the harmonic structure takes a lot of time. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Yet in its spaciousness and harmonic richness, the music anticipated Bruckner and Mahler. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “Just intonation reveals something about the way the entire piece is a single organic whole, an unfolding of one harmonic space,” Mr. Curtis said. La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Lucier's "13 Degrees of Darkness" is 13 minutes of long tones, the two flutes going in and out of harmonic sync and, when out of sync, creating striking overtone patterns. Dog Star Orchestra joyfully ventures out of bounds 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z It is part chant and part hymn but is rife with a reverence that reveals Williams’s expansive bebop and blues harmonic ingenuity. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Moving at a fast, nine-beat clip, Mäensivu’s bass line squares up firmly in a minor key, easing you into a space of feeling before the tune’s harmonic center starts shifting around. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z His experiences in both cities shine through in his richly harmonic playing and swiftly grooving music. New Year’s Eve: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z But he interpreted the words to mean that he should play sparser chords with his left hand, allowing more harmonic freedom for other soloists. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ There were passages that sounded like distant choirs and gentle patters of percussion; there were slow washes of harmonic tension and resolution. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The players bring deep, rich Brahmsian sound to the passages with thick harmonic textures. Danish String Quartet, With Haydn and Brahms 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z After arriving in New York, he modernized his harmonic approach partly through an apprenticeship with Herbie Nichols, a maverick pianist and composer. Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Each section is built on a simple cantus firmus — a brief, unharmonized chant — around which a rich, involving six-part harmonic fabric is woven. Music Review: Reflections of Sacred Harmonies From Spain 2011-04-03T21:09:05Z With occasional rhythmic and harmonic quirks that portend a break from classical expectations, the piece is not a violin solo with two accompanying instruments, although that is sometimes how it sounded here. Kennedy Center Chamber Players master a challenging program 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The 15-minute work is the account of one harrowing night, in which strings, droning or in a haze of harmonics, underlie the sorrowful cries of a trumpet. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Much of that has to do with her unerring ear for tone color and the ever-changing timbres she creates, which pull the listener along as surely as a traditional harmonic progression. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead he wrote music of majestic despair in an achingly tonal harmonic language spiked with prickly dissonance. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z “Compassion” is set upon a somewhat conventional set of chord changes, so we are able to clearly see Ornette’s poetic and harmonic logic guide his melodic intent as it would throughout his career. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The exquisite melodic and harmonic features of this piece enable you to dissociate from the pain. Why you should consider adding classical music to your exercise playlist 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Beck offered a thoughtful and suitably unsentimental rendition, the moments of harmonic acidity emerging with sharp edged clarity. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z In this quartet he uses timbres that evoke a swarm of bees, for example, as well as pizzicato chords, eerie harmonics and a mournful conclusion. Music Review: Philharmonia Quartett Berlin at Weill Recital Hall 2012-10-14T22:09:02Z Rosenberg describes Lambert’s compositions as distinctly “adventurous,” with a “sumptuous harmonic language that was well suited to lyrical singing.” A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Dream Weaver In Navajo land, the harmonic convergence of landscape and loom. T Magazine ? Travel Issue ? Summer 2012 ? The New York Times 2012-03-22T18:59:28Z Whatever the tempo, a quintessentially French danciness is paramount, an elegant playfulness that breathes even through Italianate harmonic wanderings: The back end of the Gavotte in Senaillé’s Sonata in D here gets fascinatingly dusky. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The piece is based on a seven-bar harmonic sequence that Ms. Bley plays as if expecting resolution at the eighth bar; befitting the section’s title, it’s a song that seems capable of spiraling onward forever. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But there were many literal translations from sound into movement: crisp jumps corresponding to jabbing high notes in the flute or piano, or a floppy-limbed, languid pirouette accompanied by fuzzy-toned harmonics in the strings. ‘Vortex Temporum,’ a Sensual Blend of Music and Dance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z But the songs do behave like electronic music, working with layering and crescendo at the expense of melody and harmonic movement. Review: With ‘Kidsticks,’ Beth Orton Sort of Returns to Dance Beats 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Nelson Goerner negotiated his way through its harmonic twists with exquisite grace and just the right streak of underlying toughness. BBC Philharmonic/Sinaisky 2010-07-25T20:45:00Z Nelsons and his superb orchestra made sure that every bit of its rhythmic and harmonic detail packed a punch. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2013-06-30T14:11:54Z The next 10, he says, were “testing my ideas about harmony, harmonic relations”; they tend to be longer and more challenging. Perspective | 81 and going strong, Philip Glass prepares for his Kennedy Center debut 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s an image of mutually inflicted damage framed by harmonic interdependency. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Some conductors bring out the Wagnerian harmonic textures and dark orchestral colorings of the work. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z The new mixes also regularly boost the lower register, at times elevating Voormann’s bass parts as if they were intended as counterpoint instead of a solid, unassuming harmonic foundation. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Rather than being explosive or inward, he’s a moderate with sophisticated harmonic knowledge and a strong blues sensibility, and — on a good night — phrases full of eccentric wisdom. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z But it cohered, because Schubert was at his least fretful under Mr. Denk’s fingers, waltzing along for the most part and constantly undercut by unexpected phrasing or harmonic emphasis. Jeremy Denk Knits a Dialogue in His 92nd Street Y Recital 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The string players used slight and only occasional vibrato, creating a true harmonic sound, and often less bow, allowing notes to sound as though released by the bow rather than pushed. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z He assembled a studio band of forward-looking jazz musicians to play songs full of tense ambiguities: harmonic, structural, verbal. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, overwhelmed by a “mass of harmonics” initiated by the twin towers: America is disintegrating, reality is fracturing, all to a classic soundtrack in Steve Erickson's 'Shadowbahn' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It could be the tagline of a new book on the work of Richard and Karen Carpenter, which seeks to set aside the noise surrounding the duo and focus on their harmonic creations. Book gets close to the music that made Carpenters superstars 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Höller, a German born in 1944, is not well known in the United States, and this energetic score, with its constant interplay, inventive use of color and easygoing harmonic language, proved an inviting introduction. Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier 2010-03-11T05:25:00Z “Direct imitation of melodic or harmonic passages is to be avoided,” he says, referring to what the chamber group is playing. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Then the pulse drops away and we spend a few seconds in a Schoenberg-inflected harmonic world. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s exactly the same texture, the same harmonic progression, but Opus 110 is much later. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The London Philharmonic Orchestra's conductor Vladimir Jurowski brought clarity without dissipating Strauss's orchestral richness; the work's tonal palette and harmonic seesawing were both faultlessly laid bare. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z A resourceful pianist with a crisp touch and a constantly shifting harmonic approach, Milne possesses plenty of both. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Kassa is a pre-eminent style bender and blender, successfully juxtaposing genres through his production expertise and use of melodic and harmonic forms that deftly integrate the new with the old. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z And though the finale raced by, every harmonic twist, every episodic shift and every hard-driving downbeat in this swirling music — an apotheosis of the dance, in Wagner’s term — was glistening and alive. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z Typically iconoclastic, they have names rather than numbers, and each constitutes an extreme reappraisal of symphonic form and harmonic potential in an attempt to capture the essence of the literary works that inspired them. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z He relished the harmonic adventure and turned grotesqueries into effusive and overpowering celebration. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z And he built the machine’s algorithm, thinking closely about the harmonic shapes and physical resonances that he wanted. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z I like that he never pushed the music and tried to tease out its mysticism and hazy harmonic richness. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z You can hear the Sibelius influence in Adams, the same, slow harmonic changes. Atlanta's Robert Spano, familiar to 'Ring' fans, conducts Seattle Symphony 2010-04-21T22:58:00Z Passages of Schumann-esque Romanticism peek out from behind spiky bursts, misty harmonics and metallic filaments of sound. Classical Playlist: 'West Side Story,' Schubert, Haydn and More 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z There is a surprisingly retro quality to Brown’s music, with harmonic procedures that recall the highly intellectualized music that emerged from American academia in the 1950s and ’60s. Review | Pianist-composer Michael Brown celebrates Bernstein 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z With its disastrous premiere in France in 1977, the work, and its distinctive Polish melancholy and cathartic harmonic accessibility, remained fairly obscure until the advent of British commercial classical radio. Los Angeles Philharmonic Plays Gorecki’s Fourth Symphony 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In “I Appear Missing,” the guitar harmonics echo his desolation, and the title track, sung in falsetto, invests it with soul. Album review: Queens of the Stone Age, '...Like Clockwork' 2013-06-03T19:43:00Z The music is warm, harmonic - welcoming and that is intentional. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But within their limits Bach introduces beginning players to some sophisticated elements of music, including daring harmonic modulations. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The result is a vision of Yorubaland life as a state of harmonic tension, disciplined joy. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Heard so closely with the “Lyric Suite,” the development stood out for its flashes of the future: harmonic language that would flourish at the height of Romanticism. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Norrington clearly wanted to surprise listeners; the striking harmonic emphasis in two cadences in the first movement was so unexpected that it sounded jarring. Music Review: The Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-20T23:06:06Z The modernist elements of this 60-minute score come not just from grating harmonic experiments and the feverish din the music sometimes reaches, but also from stunning discontinuities and mood shifts. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His playing style joined the traditional harmony-marking and time-keeping role of the bass to the bebop agility of the 40s, and his dexterity, harmonic sophistication and sheer power transformed every group he joined. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z During those years Mr. Glass and other like-minded composers and performers, both in downtown Manhattan and on the West Coast, began stripping away the harmonic complexities of Western art music. Into the Music: Tune-In Music Festival Celebrates Philip Glass 2012-02-19T03:43:19Z The strings that accompanied provided little more than harmonic cushion with soft tremolos and a rich supporting base line. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The words clearly inspired Mr. Abrahamsen to write music that ingeniously combines modernist astringencies, harmonic richness and strangely beautiful atmospheric colorings. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z There’s a high drama feeling to it — a lot of energy and drive, a lot of rhythmic and harmonic tension.” Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z A string quartet might briefly conjure the sound of pan flutes through clever use of harmonics. Part Teacher, Part Den Mother, a Composer Fosters Diversity 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z With no harmonic home to alight on, a line like “Comin’ for to carry me home” took on painful ambivalence. Review: ‘American Visions,’ a Graceful Take on Race, Patriotism and Longing 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The high harmonics of the Adagio sereno unfolded with a luminescent tranquillity. Review: The Pacifica Quartet Interprets Composers’ ‘Last Words’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In the Rachmaninoff preludes, he showed a willingness to hold back and linger over a nice lyrical turn or point up a harmonic shift between outbursts of heroic pianism. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist, at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T07:20:07Z Accordingly, the music bubbled in tranquil lines and spurted in brash gestures, slipping fitfully among harmonic centers like a bar of soap sliding through wet fingers. Music Review: A Night of Newer Works, With a Glance to the Past 2011-04-22T22:10:09Z Wilkinson notes how the harmonic structure in music is connected to mathematical forms. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Dotted with cadenzas that put the soloist back in the forefront, the concerto demonstrated Kernis’ command of the complete orchestral palette, from cataclysmic brass passages to otherworldly solo harmonics over hushed strings. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z To achieve this, producers make sure that the songs vary in instrumentation, harmonic progression and dynamic levels when placed next to one another. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z On open strings there are all sorts of anomalies that come with it, you hear harmonics of a different kind, all sorts of open sounds. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z The music is fidgety and full of harmonic shifts, run through with two-against-three rhythms. Review: Philip Glass Comes, Finally, to the New York Philharmonic 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z There was drama and momentum in the music’s developing harmonic movement; at times a shift to a new chord felt like an event. Music Review: The Saxophonist Miguel Zen?n at Montclair State 2012-02-07T23:33:32Z This irrepressible pianist’s year has been dominated by the Bad Plus, the famous ensemble he joined in January and immediately rewired, giving it a cooler push of momentum and a savory, new harmonic makeup. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Unexpected modulations surfaced in the beginning of “Summer,” followed by eerie string harmonics in the slow movement. Music Review: Max Richter’s Update to ‘Four Seasons’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-12-23T22:14:54Z They move through harmonic progressions with scientific curiosity and patience, but also with an intensity of feeling that keeps excruciating and releasing, over and over. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The players kept that essential quality in focus, even as Mr. Andriessen’s themes ventured into increasingly dense harmonic territory. Music Review: Dramatic Brush Strokes From Strings 2011-07-25T21:45:25Z The string writing is rugged, with a hint of Stravinskian tartness, but the real draw is the virtuosic solo writing: Baroque in shape but with a modern harmonic accent. Music Review: Traditional Works Made in an Avant-Garde Time 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z They were alert to every experimental turn and pungent harmonic twist. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The piece develops through seven distinctly coloured sections, the most arresting being a slow canon eerily expressed as phantom harmonics by the strings, and concludes, in true Bachian style, with a masterfully harmonised chorale. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z Pretty without pandering, it contains fleeting allusions to folk music and sends the cellist on an excursion into the spidery upper harmonics of the instrument. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z His ear was alert to startling harmonic shifts and inner textures. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z Throughout the nine, there is a steady expansion of formal audacity and harmonic complexity. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Eerie harmonic layers were built upon the wordless syllables, an austere medieval aesthetic punctuated with colorful contemporary twists. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z Written in a freely atonal harmonic language, the music seeks to express, as Schoenberg wrote, “all that swells in us subconsciously like a dream.” Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “His music always, without fail, instills a feeling that all is well in the world, and I feel his harmonic language is more Romantic than that of the Romantics.” Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall has more depth than at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and Adams' piece thrives on the subtleties of texture and harmonic blend. Seattle conductor Ludovic Morlot at the helm of the L.A. Phil for 'Become Ocean' 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Some of the pieces on “Ghost Tones” are solo piano, rendered slowly, with dynamics and ear-stretching harmonic relationships: Mr. Blake’s eerie stock in trade. Review: Ran Blake’s ‘Ghost Tones’ Connects With George Russell 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Carter also made use of a highly systematised harmonic system, involving tables of all possible permutations of a given set of intervals. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Lawrence kept his big tone but sacrificed his careful lyrical architecture for the sake of Trane’s speed and harmonic devices. Review | Saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s Coltrane devotion takes center stage at Blues Alley 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z In his score, Blanchard deftly blends elements of jazz, blues, hints of big band and gospel into a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords,” Mr. Tommasini wrote, “though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z His performance savours all of the work's harmonic subtleties, major-minor contrasts and excursions to remote keys. Beethoven: Eroica Variations; Haydn: Variations in F minor; Schumann: Symphonic Studies – review 2013-04-03T14:50:38Z Swaddled in synthesizers and trumpet effects, avoiding a firm tempo, Blanchard savors each unorthodox harmonic payoff, feeling no need to take a solo. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Tyner’s harmonic language was based on quartal chords and pentatonic scales, while Jones played every permutation of threes and fours within the beat. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z But, as often happens in musical history, the generation after Bach stripped away much of the older composers' harmonic complexity, writing instead with a dramatically simpler palette of harmonies. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Although he never achieved broad stardom, his legato playing and protean harmonic flow influenced a generation of guitarists. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “It’s a harmonic convergence,” Ms. Steinem said of the alignment between the empowering message of the exhibition and how the building is being reimagined. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “Each of her words hang in the air and react to rhythmic and harmonic information within the music, which never ceases to move me.” Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z It is, in the composer's words, "a kind of cadenza for everybody", in which frenzied buzzing resolves to soft, insinuating harmonics, like sweet poison poured into your ear. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair - review 2011-01-31T18:11:20Z Like well-made songs, his essays don’t just have strong verses and choruses but bridges, too, unexpected bits that make subtle harmonic connections. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z It continued with one of Samuel Adams’s Impromptus, a work of inspired keyboard writing designed to complement Schubert, with flashes of that composer along with warmth and subtle harmonic shading to match. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Traditional harmonic motion relies on human memory, the knowledge of where the music started and wants to return. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z While playing with plenty of virtuosic flair, he brings out inner voices and harmonic subtleties that seem fresh, even startling. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Repetition was an engine in all four works Mr. Gosling played, but so was harmonic density and a clear sense of development — sometimes classically formal, sometimes dramatic and picturesque. Music Review: New-Music Champion Pays a Call 2011-01-09T22:56:47Z Hypnotic as a windup music box, this prelude soon led to a more declarative melody, played in harmonic tandem by Mr. Berne and the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, against Mr. Smith’s assertive drumming. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Lines were long and sensuous, simmering with yearning and clear in their harmonic destiny. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It was dedicated to exploring forms of jazz less hidebound by orthodox "swing" and Tin Pan Alley-derived harmonic structures. Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z They often feature dreamy, electronic orchestrations, as well as chatty vocal performances that are crisply attuned to underlying harmonic designs. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z A few harmonic oddities, restrained for Stravinsky, enlivened the familiar tune. With new members in BSO, striving for a cohesive sound in season opener at Strathmore 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The player hunches over the bass, fingers scrawling out harmonics beyond the fingerboard: It’s a visual spectacle as much as an aural one. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z There are fleeting passages of repose, including an episode in which a lacy theme penetrates harmonic mists. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z Abels then took those themes and orchestrated them, sometimes making the harmonic language more complex and applying the sense of pacing he’s developed writing for film. With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Tempos are mostly broad and restrained, and a harmony, once stated, tends to linger and shimmer before shifting to another harmonic place. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z Also, in the UK, Rossen thinks their star has risen thanks to the success of Fleet Foxes, who took Grizzly Bear's harmonic template and made it glossily mainstream. Grizzly Bear: freed from captivity 2010-05-27T21:01:00Z Halfway through, melodic fragments seemed to emerge, though these were often just instruments rising up the harmonic series. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The boys' training in classical music and theory would influence Van Halen's guitar playing, particularly the famous two-handed, finger tapping technique, where harmonic ideas derived from the keyboard found new expression on the electric guitar. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z As the band acclimatised, Iverson mingled speculative prodding and elegant long lines over Lasserson's fast walk and Williams's foaming cymbals on Just in Time, and imparted purposeful focus and harmonic ambiguity to Wayne Shorter's Juju. Ethan Iverson – review 2013-04-22T17:07:40Z Some of the ideas, especially harmonic ideas, are incredible. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Written predominately in the register of whispering, high harmonics it was exceptionally demanding but never showy – an approach that Pintscher refers to as "concentric virtuosity". Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival – review 2012-11-26T12:37:30Z Mr. Helmchen offered characterful readings of these concise, spare morsels, which reflect the composer’s shift toward the 12-tone system and reveal his distaste for the harmonic language and emotional gestures of the Romantic period. Music Review: Martin Helmchen at the Frick Collection - Review 2011-11-03T00:11:37Z Mr. Sheeran defended his “mash-up” technique, saying he frequently played such medleys in concert, which are made possible by the limited harmonic palette of mainstream pop music. Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The mixture of rigour and viscerality was superbly maintained throughout, from the fierce way he launched the growling opening march to the curious logic he brought to the harmonic and existential jolts of the finale. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda | Classical review 2010-03-31T22:00:00Z The violin is consumed with cosmic harmonics, while the clarinet fixates on haunting two-note figures. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The part that is A.I. is taking the harmonics and the timbre of the vocal and moving them to be consistent with my voice, as opposed to the person’s original voice. Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: The National Gallery It was a decisive moment in the Renaissance as artists discovered a new harmonic beauty. Baby, it's cold outside: art's best nativity scenes 2012-12-24T08:00:04Z Beyond his book of tunes, he was revered for developing and endlessly refining a modern harmonic language. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z When Lorraine Hunt entered his life, that pursuit of harmonic pleasure came to the forefront of his work, although the music remained scrupulous in method. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Simple and direct, though containing some flamboyant harmonic and orchestral writing, her George Herbert setting Stars, Night, Music and Light struck exactly the right celebratory note. First Night of the Proms: BBCSO/Belohlavek - review 2011-07-16T00:28:34Z With his unique feeling for harmonic color, Schubert takes the listener through dark, mysterious or ecstatic places, each movement a miniature odyssey. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z On tunes like “Don’t Break” and “Shadow,” Wilkins and Thomas play the melody in loosely locked unison, shifting in and out of keys, tilting and rocking the harmonic floor beneath them. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z There were harmonic patterns and motifs that peeped through the dense chromatics; and Josefowicz, playing from memory, drew a standing ovation for her intense delivery. Review | Leila Josefowicz begins stint with NSO 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z A flute, hazy and lightly arpeggiated, introduced melody to the mix, which grew richer: percussion in the familiar falling interval of bird song in classical music, and harmonic runs in the strings. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In “Tristan und Isolde” Wagner tested the boundaries of tonality, building tension with harmonic suspensions, tritones and an arc of unresolved cadences that spans the entire opera. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z Also striking was the slow second movement, with the famous solo violin melody pulled through an eerie canvas of otherworldly harmonics. Music Review: Max Richter’s Update to ‘Four Seasons’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-12-23T22:14:54Z He layered instruments to create tonal and harmonic variety rarely if ever heard in rock recordings. Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z I also liked Gnesin’s “From Shelly,” another symphonic fragment, this one a curious blend of wayward lyricism, diffuse chromatic harmonic writing and evocations of Wagner. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Rhythms help us understand time, the repetition of melodies and harmonic patterns provide a mathematical satisfaction. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z “Among Red Mountains” is another of his works of geology as sound, a massif petrified in pounding, fortissimo cluster chords that move in stratified harmonic rhythms. Review: Lisa Moore at DiMenna Center 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The opener, “Mr. White,” teases a harmonic nod to Foster Sylvers’s “Misdemeanor.” Listening Booth: Thailand’s Shadow Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The composition’s insistence on constant harmonic change offered another. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata, Mr. Perahia was able to build up generous arcs of dramatic development through the juxtaposition of that rooting bass line and the emotionally charged harmonic progressions straining against it. Music Review: Murray Perahia’s Powerful Sound Unfurls at Avery Fisher 2014-03-10T20:54:55Z The debate continues about what Shostakovich meant with his 1937 Fifth Symphony, whether the composer acted as a sop to Stalin or employed surreptitiously dissident context to harmonic consonances. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The harmonic writing, the plush orchestration, the shimmering string sonorities and the Wagnerian heft of the music carry you along. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z She saw it as a dusty art form, she once said, and couldn’t picture translating her sound world of slow, subtle harmonic changes into melodies and arias. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z He would simultaneously control the whammy bar, volume and tone control of the guitar which – with the combination of harmonics, off-fret slide and left-hand inflection – explored an orchestral range of sonic possibilities. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z In the role of bass the cellist must give life to the harmonic structure.” David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z Violins deliver harmonic glissandos that echo in the vocal treatment of the word “husband,” which warps, melting downward. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z One harmonic modulation announced itself as a tickling sensation in my throat. Music Review: Sergei Tcherepnin’s Music for One at Issue Project Room 2012-11-28T16:06:13Z The mood is wonderfully ambiguous, as is Mr. Shepherd’s pungent harmonic voice. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z But the highlight was an impossibly sustained high harmonic, eddying above distant turbulence from the timpani. BBC Philharmonic/Storgards/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-03T16:54:28Z But the more intriguing, subtle and, for composers, handy kind of dissonance involves intervals — that is, the combination of notes that create an acoustical, harmonic tension demanding resolution. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s a demonstration of how much richness you can get out of changing just one variable, because the harmonic progression is the same over and over. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z But in passage after passage, Mr. Storgards emphasized the discontinuities and jarring turns of the music, as well as the piercing shards of dissonance that Sibelius folds into his deceptively sonorous harmonic language. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The instrumental music is atmospheric and organic, with Impressionist colorings, pungently atonal harmonic writing, spectral textures and Asian-influenced melodic fragments. NY Phil Biennial Opens With ‘The Raven’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He learned to emphasize melody by plucking it with his strong thumb in syncopation with harmonic notes picked with his first two fingers. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88; 2012-03-29T05:13:11Z The recent Hall & Oates revival seemingly started with the harmonic convergence of Howard Stern and a series of Google Alerts. '80s stars Hall & Oates back in spotlight 2010-03-28T23:31:00Z “Music for Ensemble and Orchestra” retains much of that piece’s structure and adds a slight harmonic backdrop from the orchestra. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z For all its Gypsy dance character and tart harmonic writing, this is a lightweight work. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z Strauss, the subject of Ross's first chapter, links the chromatic opulence of late Romanticism with the fractured soundworlds of modernity; and Zarathustra, pivoting between two keys a semitone apart, presages a century of harmonic reinvention. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z He used a small array of effects pedals for much of his career, though even on spacey, synthesizer-driven music he prized clear articulation and harmonic forbearance. John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Bowie’s death seems especially pertinent, thinking now about the harmonic buzz of the universe, the noise that you make and the noise that we make, the patterns in the cacophony. Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. King writes of harmonics, echoes and “the butterfly effect,” two ways of saying that tampering with the past is a dangerous business. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z The harmonic language is a hybrid of octatonic scales and atonality, but there are clear levels of dissonance and consonance. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Still, Rachmaninoff’s mature voice already comes through in the chromatic richness of the harmonic writing, the abundant lyricism and the glowing orchestration. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Hartke does not mimic Shostakovich’s harmonic accent but pays tribute to his penchant for offsetting gravity with snarling sarcasm. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z In his music he tweaked conventions and was undaunted when works like the “Eroica” were criticized for their wildness, harmonic adventurousness and, for the time, outrageous length. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z More: the song “Chucho’s Steps” referred to the harmonic movement of ’s “Giant Steps.” Music Review: A Cultural Conversation Through Jazz 2010-10-25T22:35:00Z I sat in the crowded, delightfully musty Long Island instrument shop Samuel Kolstein & Son and tried cello after cello, pushing them to extremes of tone with meaty chords and soft, high harmonics. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z The synergy of her lyrics, melody and harmonic progressions heightens the meaning of the stories she tells. Summer Favorites of Theater Festival Composers 2012-07-11T22:38:51Z These are standards with lots of chord changes, trunkfuls of harmonic information. Music Review: Veterans With Quartets, Stretching Out in Sound 2011-02-27T23:05:32Z For all the charm of hearing the actual strokes of the typewriter and the clinking bell, the melodic lines keep taking unexpected harmonic turns. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The E flat work, coloured by horn and clarinet, alternates harmonic familiarity with sudden dissonance, its last movement ending with almost shocking, or perhaps jokey, abruptness. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z Just as you start to grasp the harmonic implications, his ensemble begins navigating virtuoso rhythm changes. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Over all, the music is crucial, by turns pensive and fidgety, solemnly harmonic and skittishly diffuse. Review: ‘Aging Magician,’ a Fable Complete With Complexities 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Become River” grows out of bright filaments of light rendered by violin harmonics. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The five-piece band — a wrecking crew of young talent in traditional formation: mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar and bass — could nimbly handle Thile’s jump cuts between sections and his layering of harmonic modes. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A "Time of War" is no less a time for clever turns of phrase, inventive formal procedures and harmonic twists. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z It's the harmonic tones between the black notes that you hear if you open your mind up, basically. Goldie: 'Melinda Messenger is like a small, really powerful monkey' 2013-03-08T15:16:16Z Things have harmonics, and if you’re true to an idea as much as you can be, then the harmonics will be there and they’ll be truthful even though they may be abstract. David Lynch on Michael Jackson and That Crazy Frog From ‘Twin Peaks’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But in creating an orderly horizontal sequence of pitches, certain intervals — the vertical harmonic relationships between two notes played simultaneously — are distorted so they no longer ring true. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z This movement explored new harmonic languages that broke radically from major-minor tonality. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There are stretches in the first movement in which frenetic marimba volleys skirt atop jittery string ostinatos that break into cresting harmonic waves. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z This section segues into an impetuous Allegro, in which intense passages veer through shifting harmonic realms. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Plays at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T23:23:32Z The harmonic range of the tom-toms was expanded by blowing air into tubes attached to the side of the drums, which stretched the drumheads and thus the variety of pitches. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Luisi led a characterful interpretation, enhanced by fine contributions from strings and woodwinds, that illuminated moments of Stravinskian ingenuity, like the violin and viola harmonics in the Introduction. Music Review: Met Opera Orchestra With David Chan and Yefim Bronfman 2012-12-04T20:20:07Z At the end of the melody, Shorter introduces a catchy fillip of a phrase, repeats it, then turns it over in a few different harmonic contexts. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z When the ensemble, led by Mr. Liberman, delivers the show’s final number, “Answer Me,” the music takes on a transcendent harmonic shimmer that stops the heart. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But Prasanna’s compositions, like “Polytheism” and “Tribal Wisdom,” convey a cosmopolitan harmonic language, rich with passing frictions. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z It’s harmonic and meditative, but it’s out for blood. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z During “Moonlight,” subdued, chorale-like string chords had uncommon clarity: You could really hear the harmonic intensity generated by softly clashing intervals. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “He knew what word would go well with a dissonant note or a harmonic modulation,” he added. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But “The Chord” is much more than just a crunchy harmonic moment: It carries a deep symbolic resonance for the Christian community, and represents a key moment in the creation of Britain’s carol industry. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z He came to Richardson Auditorium, and he was playing with a jazz, harmonic vocabulary but with a pop sensibility. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z But the lack of a unifying harmonic or melodic language is only part of what makes this moderately entertaining, frequently infuriating two-hour work a bumpy ride. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The way they interact and toss in sudden surprises of harmonic color is reminiscent of vintage small groups led by Nat Cole Trio and Phil Moore. Peter and Will Anderson play joyous jazz | Concert preview 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Even difficult-to-balance moments, like the final violin harmonic that floats like a lonely whistle above low piano chords, were rendered with eloquent expression. Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan Balance Power and Nuance at Zankel Hall 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He extended the capacious, dramatic sound and modern harmonic ideas of Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry from the 1930s, as well as the streamlined and mercurial improvising of Paul Gonsalves. Music Review: A Jazz Pianist Pays Tribute to a Neglected Composer 2009-12-17T06:09:00Z The notion that there’s something harmonic in the placement of things is something that hasn’t been noticed in this particular way, and at least seems to be worth looking at, however, easier said than done. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z And in a pretrial ruling, the judge said the plaintiffs’ expert musicologist could not testify that the song’s chord progression or “harmonic rhythm” were unique or distinctive. When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It's a seemingly inexhaustible treasure house of melodic/rhythmic/harmonic pattern and possibility. 'Clavier' Redux: András Schiff brings Bach's masterpiece to Benaroya 2012-10-10T22:23:03Z Three Elegies also celebrates restlessness in harmonic progression. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z His Fourth is structured in four traditional movements and mostly hews to a tonal harmonic language. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z As a result, everything we cherish in the music – harmonic structure, large-scale architecture, sense of cumulative power – gets jettisoned in this utterly pointless exercise. CBSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-07T15:24:27Z The painting, which will go on view June 3, was completed when Rembrandt was just 23 and forecast many of the characteristics that would make him famous — chiaroscuro, harmonic composition, drama. How a Rembrandt Masterpiece Evolved 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But a set of Fantasias showed that Ripa’s main interest was in exploring a melody’s harmonic implications in increasingly thick textures, though, like dall’Aquila, he was comfortable creating detailed, speedy passagework as well. Music Review: Lute Fanciers Meet 3 Stars From the Past 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z For the next 50 years, Mr. Cranshaw was the rhythmic and harmonic anchor for the powerful saxophonist, considered by many the most influential jazz musician of his time. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It is an imaginative work in a personal minimalist fashion calling for powerfully lunging bows, sighing harmonics and perky half-tone statements. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres But sudden, subdued bursts interrupt the flow, and the music keeps making willful, even weird harmonic shifts. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Howard's score captures Zátopek's oddball personality by setting him at a slight harmonic variant with the rest of the field. Zátopek! – review 2012-06-18T17:35:31Z They continued using essentially tonal languages and tried to reinvigorate classical forms with fresh harmonic and rhythmic techniques. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Sparks favored a clean, flinty tone, combining the brisk harmonic fluency of bebop with the bite and feeling of the blues. Melvin Sparks, Guitarist, Is Dead at 64 2011-03-21T03:37:26Z He couldn’t resist jumping into “Puerta,” he said, because he wanted to highlight its opening D flat, a constant harmonic base throughout some of the other preludes. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z Similar to the oceanic crescendo that runs through Wagner’s Vorspiel to “Das Rheingold,” this bass is felt before it’s heard, the downbeat swooning to fill a space, tuned to its own harmonic center. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z As a player and composer, he fully exploits the harmonic freedom afforded by Migration's absence of a chordal instrument. Drummer Antonio Sanchez's group Migration makes Seattle debut at Jazz Alley 2010-03-29T04:01:00Z The harmonic language, the orchestration, is remarkable, if the conductor balances the orchestra properly and the orchestra has familiarity with the music, which is very rarely the case, because Elgar is not played that often. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But Mr. Cope evokes those qualities through a series of arresting, essentially tonal themes and a constant manipulation of textures and dynamics rather than through harmonic spikiness. Music Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays at Merkin Hall 2010-04-20T22:27:00Z This is music built of morphing textures, subtle coloration, straightforward but involving rhythmic underpinnings and rich currents of melody, all cloaked in a harmonic language that embraces dissonance without making it the point. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Dutilleux at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-27T20:50:47Z The artificial harmonics in the fifth movement, played on non-open strings and largely in parallel seconds, were otherworldly. Tamestit ably straddles the cello-music-on-viola gap at Kennedy Center 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But it's not just harmonic stability that's needed, it could use some distinctive rhythmic profiles, too. Hagen Quartet - review 2011-01-31T18:29:41Z “The harmonic information, the melodic information, all of that is so interesting, so why can’t it be brought into a warmer place rhythmically?” Tristano School, Back in Session 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z Few do heavy and harmonic as well as this grunge-indebted trio on its colossal new album. 16 of the best Seattle albums from 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Another comparatively small “Abstract Picture” by Richter was remarkable for its color harmonics in pastel-like pinkish and bluish hues and its trailed lines that suggested light reflections on rain water swept across glass. Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z “Do you feel like harmonizing the tone of your breathing with the room tone? Is your breathing finding its own way to harmonize with the room tone that is not strictly harmonic?” The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But Mr. Marsalis also showed orchestral ambitions, arranging more than a few passages for a piquant blend of flutes and muted horns, and favoring striking harmonic sequences, like a Thelonious Monkish stretch of “Leap Frogs.” Review: Wynton Marsalis’s ‘Spaces,’ a Kinetic Series of Zoological Portraits 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z As performed here Mr. Mehldau’s harmonic language, dense with wayward chords, seemed like a latter-day riff on Zemlinsky and his circle. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z By beginning with lurching rhythms and using pianos tuned a quartertone apart, he forced listeners to find their aural sea legs, since you could never quite locate the harmonic floor. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella What is the harmonic of a quintile aspect, and how many degrees is it? Astrology Is Hard, Even if It’s Fake 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In a 28-minute long dirge, Mr. Cooper takes the opening bars of a gorgeous 18th-century lamentation full of aching harmonic suspensions and renders it in extreme slow motion so that its pulse becomes undetectable. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z A deceptively tranquil harmonic backdrop keeps getting interrupted by evocations of frenzied, restless and captivating bird song. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The only original tune on "Hot House" is "Mozart Goes Dancing," on which Corea combined a harmonic progression familiar to Mozart with Latin rhythms. Corea competes against himself at Grammys 2013-02-02T14:28:14Z But only the films combine harmonic motion with the city’s more erratic rhythms. Art In Review: JAMES NARES: ?1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper? 2012-01-26T23:25:11Z With help from Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he tuned his drums in fourths to maximize their harmonic potential and recorded himself improvising rapid, rumbling patterns over and over again. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z His nuanced understanding of Davis’s playing — its harmonic and rhythmic wirings as well as its smoldering tone — was only part of a vast musical ken. Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso, Is Dead at 59 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Even with a substantial pause between the 17th and 18th variations, Rondeau maintained a sinuous connection between the tension of the harmonic wanderings in the first and the strumming release of the second. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “Both Hovhaness and Lou Harrison have been very influential in a direct way on Keith,” in part because “they have a melodic and harmonic language that is very close to him,” Mr. Davies said. ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z At first you wonder how long Feldman can keep this static mass of harmonic waves going. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z It is founded on jagged, pounding rhythms rather than the orderly harmonic progressions to which European ears were accustomed, and its Paris premiere in 1913 famously caused a riot. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z He deployed a harmonic language that, while rooted in tonality, was wayward and complex. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The work ends with a kind of Schnittkean questioning with a repeated rising harmonic figure in the piano. Music Review: In Mahler?s Chamber, a Radical Departure 2011-06-16T22:12:01Z These changing colors are stronger than the slight harmonic motion of Riley’s score but they don’t push the production out of the key of C. Review: Sasha Waltz’s Action Painting Swirls to ‘In C’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z He went on to sing duets of chillingly harmonic beauty with his now ex-wife, Linda Thompson. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Then again, Schoenberg titled an influential essay “Brahms the Progressive,” analyzing the Brahms who explored daring harmonic paths and, in his late works, even anticipated the breakdown of tonality. | Classical: Still Elusive: Brahms, in Concert 2014-05-09T23:01:41Z But the instrumental writing shows Mr. Glass moving farther afield from the music of his early operas and symphonies, and embracing a broader harmonic palette. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z But here was a quirky and intriguing compositional voice, a score full of pungent harmonic writing and elusive orchestral commentary on the action. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z The untethered harmonic language, along with the developmental approach to form, could easily make the concerto seem long-winded. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z There was some Coltrane genuflection in “Rain Ballad,” which borrowed the simmering rubato of “After the Rain,” along with some harmonic shading from “Naima.” Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z When the bass line that grounds the music took a sudden low plunge, it seemed, briefly, like the harmonic floor had opened a chasm. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z On “Run for the Red Fort,” the melody and improvisations are rooted in the chandrakauns raga, meaning the notes are chosen from that harmonic vocabulary. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z He doesn’t just drop these tunes into this score, but blends them — with nuance and respect — into his own Italianate, 20th-century harmonic language. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Without the double and triple stops that anchor Bach’s writing for solo violin, his Partita for flute relies on clarity of phrasing to create the illusion of a harmonic architecture. Review: Rachel Podger Plays Bach for Flute With Her Violin 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z But this highly varied set is more explicitly classical in its harmonic mobility and melodic flourishes and more elaborately composed than Jarrett's jazz work ... Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z The penetrating certainty and harmonic sparseness of Coltrane’s late work left people awed. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But the Beaux Arts achieved what critics called a wondrous harmonic unity in a resilient three-way musical marriage. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Some of Mozart's most memorable tunes in his opera The Magic Flute are based on very simple harmonic blocks of three or four chords. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Musically, the quintet's mix of nervy pop, gritty punk, rock, and girl-group harmonic gleam was a revelation. "Beauty and the Beat" at 40: The Go-Go's landmark debut ushered in a musical new wave 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Like many of his works of the last 15 years, “Three Explorations” is couched in a rugged but inviting harmonic language. Music Review: Axiom at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-13T23:30:15Z He presented music as an intricate but manageable system for organizing pitches and rhythms: a sort of harmonic Sudoku. Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z A band called Near Northeast, which plays “melodic ambient folky harmonic music,” is setting up in the bay window at the front of the house. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z There are various applications of the harmonic series, various relationships of phrasing and tempo among the guitars, ensembles of various sizes, works of various lengths and instruments with various tunings, rock-drumming rhythms of different kinds. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Thomas has a very abstract vision of everything, and Deck is more of a mathematician – when there's a decision about harmonic complexities, he's there. Phoenix Metaphors 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z Byrd’s fantasia “Two Parts in One” and complex setting of the “In Nomine” tune showcased that composer’s contrapuntal rigor, harmonic invention and melodic fancy. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But in his right hand he worked with a sharp incisor, sculpting shapely phrases with a harmonic specificity of their own. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Many Prokofiev scores try to contain modernist, sometimes barbaric impulses within Neo-Classical forms, in a harmonic language that for all its dissonance is essentially tonal. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z In a mere one minute and 42 seconds, the axe man detonated a dazzling display of fretboard tapping, ringing harmonics, lightning-fast licks and smeared, dive-bombing effects. Eddie Van Halen dies at 65 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z She busily crams steps or lifts onto sequences where Haydn slowly builds harmonic tension. Review: A Triple Bill at the Royal Ballet Comes Up Two-Thirds Short 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Benini understands that in Donizetti what may sound like a standard oompah-pah accompaniment is an integral musical element that lifts a melody, provides harmonic and rhythmic substance, and offers flexible support to the singers. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z Early songs such as Catch a Wave, Surfer Girl or In My Room possess an extra, unexpected chord or harmonic trick that other writers were simply incapable of locating. The Beach Boys – review 2012-09-30T16:00:01Z Boulez also revered Mahler, seeing in him a pioneer of harmonic and structural exploration. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Holshouser was the pliable center of the ensemble, an engine of harmonic texture. Music Review | Regina Carter: Grooving to African Folk With Yacouba Sissoko 2010-03-24T20:58:00Z His piano situated at the rear of the stage but his presence ever felt through his gorgeous harmonic stylings, Hancock well demonstrated the reasons for his career longevity. Herbie Hancock & friends throw rousing jazz shindig 2010-06-25T22:05:00Z Clouds,” running some 70 minutes, unfolds in 19 sections exploring harmonic intervals in a sequence rising from minor second to major seventh. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z While others fixated on the fluid virtuosity and harmonic sophistication of Charlie Parker, Coleman heard the bluesy cry in Parker’s tone and the rhythmic unrest just beneath the surface. Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "Chord sequences beloved of composers around 1700 are still the top harmonic sequences mined by composers of all styles today," he says. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z The mood shifted in the finale, with glassy harmonics undercut by anxious tremolos. Music Review: Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight 2011-01-20T22:49:21Z The sombre first movement, by turns barbed and lyrical, was beautifully understated, and its tricky combination of harmonic bitterness, muted virtuosity and melodic expansion flawlessly judged. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z When you record something really slow and you speed it up, all the harmonics get shifted up. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet the orchestra keeps needling the vocal lines with jabbing dissonances and modernist harmonic twists, so a sober subtext comes through. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Nézet-Séguin boldly plumbed the music for wayward harmonic turns, mercurial shifts and weighty orchestral depths, as in the Dutchman’s long, brooding monologue when we first meet him. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It was a mixture of electronic drones and string murmurs, mostly minor or modal and often using the glassy tone of bowed harmonics. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Barber adhered to tried-and-true formal schemes and generic conventions from the 19th century, adding tangy harmonies and metrical sleights of ear to disguise, however thinly, the traditional harmonic and melodic organization of his compositions. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z You can hear Powell’s dashing, bouncing style metabolized inside a music with almost no harmonic movement. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “The accordion provides this incredible harmonic glue,” Mr. Jacobsen said by phone earlier this month from Tanglewood, “but also conjures up the folk world. I think the classical pieces might reveal their folkier roots.” Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Well, actually it’s the fact that this tiny partial comes out and then it dips into this one, and then seven others come over in this beautiful harmonic tangle. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Hall was more impressed by the 35-year-old masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians, in which "endless harmonic perspectives seem to spin off into an infinite distance." The Proms 2011: week four in review 2011-08-17T17:14:11Z He also made rough sketches outlining the harmonic, melodic and rhythmical structure of large tracts of the text. Michael Kennedy on Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos 2013-05-30T09:56:31Z The tunes ranged from shadowy harmonic movement to sputtering free improvisations. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The selections, including Mr. Thompson’s solo on “Stuffy,” are considered formative in the development of the nascent bebop sound, with its challenging rhythmic and harmonic concepts. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Adams and Taub conduct the harmonics test, but Will doesn’t seize. House Recap: The Parent Trap Edition 2012-03-20T13:30:50Z And in the spirit of the evening, Debussy was touched on, at least obliquely, in the harmonic haziness in the work’s final pages. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z Yet he was alert to every slightly unexpected twist and harmonic shift. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z The background is one of harmonic repetition, tinged with shifting textures and timbres. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The first sonata, revised in 1991, offers some of the galloping energy seemingly required when suggesting Americana, but it also includes a rambunctious harmonic edge that bristles with maverick spirit. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Alert to the fleeting harmonic changes, Mr. Afkham never indulged in unnecessary drama but allowed each resolution enough space to unfold its sweetness. Music Review: David Afkham Leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2013-08-18T21:53:05Z What these composers share is a near-nerdy infatuation with rhythmic complexity, a harmonic and melodic directness, a fascination with poetry, a sentimental side and a love for trick endings. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella Mr. Towner, who turned 70 this month, furnished the harmonic scaffolding and undercurrent of each tune, beginning with the polyrhythmic drift of “Punta Giara” and moving on to the fragile rubato of “Wistful Thinking.” Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z He's influenced a lot by Stravinsky, who is probably my idol, and he has in turn greatly influenced me in his directness, bold colours and harmonic language. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z Yet Mr. Muti and his inspired players did more, highlighting inner textures, obsessively repeated rhythmic riffs and harmonic complexities. Music Review: Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-07T22:03:08Z Those qualities are matched, though in an earlier harmonic accent, in the Mendelssohn Octet, represented here by a lively, seat-of-the-pants reading of the opening Allegro moderato con fuoco movement. Music Review: Bowing and Plucking to Honor a Festival 2011-01-16T22:09:24Z What is often heard mostly as harmonic support became a teeming world of countermelodies and motifs. Review: At St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach’s Mass in All Its Elements 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The radical harmonic language he employed in “Tristan und Isolde” and “Götterdämmerung” changed irrevocably the course of European music. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z In a whole sequence of numbers the lack of harmonic variety begins to tell, too. Prom 19: Sondheim at 80 2010-08-01T20:31:00Z What impresses throughout is the accomplishment of the harmonic and orchestral writing, both utilising a layering technique where more than one thematic element is heard over and against another. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z This Spanish pianist has the attentive delivery and dramatic flourish of a flamenco guitarist, but his harmonic language is suffused with Romanticism. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “His enjoyment of the instrument,” Port writes, “stemmed from the precise pattern of harmonics produced by its strings. Where others heard music, Leo Fender heard physics.” Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z He took these very tropical Cuban rhythms and added this new harmonic thing, modern jazz chords in a Latin context. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z And the Sonatina No. 6 is a fantasy on themes from “Carmen,” filtered through Busoni’s mildly acidic harmonic sensibility and spun together by the light of his quirkily humorous imagination. Music Review: Kirill Gerstein at Peoples? Symphony Concert 2010-05-10T20:47:00Z Here, the Tristan Chord laments that in his youth, restless for harmonic novelty, he created a chord that erased the rules of harmony. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Dean’s harmonic language deftly blends tonal elements with raw astringencies. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Her arrangements, which she describes as “fresh, harmonic and playful,” are inspired by the seasons: anemones and forget-me-nots in the spring, chamomile and sunflowers in summer, and red fruits and autumn-colored hydrangeas in the fall. T Black Book: Florists 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z He is at the root of the harmonic explosions of the 20th century; Liszt and Wagner really started it all. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “Half the Battle,” featuring Mr. Rosenwinkel, is a shadow-realm prowl suspenseful in its harmonic irresolution, an excellent disquisition on the dark grandeur of the unknown. The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z One of the reasons the Beatles’ songs sound so rich is the depth of composition, the melodic and harmonic layers – and McCartney’s ability to straddle rhythm and melody on bass was critical. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z A set of four notes that recurs in the Trio became known as the “Dream Chord,” a harmonic basis for Mr. Young’s subsequent music. La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He likes to emphasize the melodic shape of a work more than its harmonic grounding; a “Tristan” Prelude and Liebestod on an iffy Wagner collection is therefore pretty, but slack. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The most substantial work of the five is Yershon’s spare, pensive score for “Mr. Turner,” in which solo woodwinds cry out over an unstable harmonic background; it seems to pull tones from Turner’s darkling skies. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Every time I wanted a little more urgency from Mr. Luisotti, he drew my attention to the textural richness and piercing harmonic complexities of the music. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z Intrigued by its harmonic and rhythmic complexities, he found a new hero in the bebop pianist Bud Powell. John Bunch, Pianist With Goodman and Bennett, Dies at 88 2010-04-01T22:21:00Z Schiff’s sensitivity for harmonic and emotional color was given full play here; he poured feeling into every phrase, sometimes endangering the boundaries of cohesion and form. Pianist András Schiff is note-perfect at Strathmore concert 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z “This is very, very fine music,” Stern says, “a major piece. It is very much of its time — Mozart, Weber, Schubert — and then there are some harmonic twists that nobody else does.” A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z For the listener, the newer work is still made of the same building blocks as her music has had for decades: slow-moving fundamentals, shimmering harmonics, microtones and long spans of material. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It begins mysteriously, as the violin plays cosmic-sounding harmonics that float high and low, like spectral arpeggios. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Hints of that harmonic ambiguity can be heard in her whimsical “Fairytale Poem,” written in 1971 for a radio broadcast featuring a Czech fairy tale, “The Little Chalk.” Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z The colossal first movement has moments in which majestic themes unfold in segmented phrases and episodes where motifs go through complex harmonic sequences. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Rihm’s score, while recognizably the music of a formidable atonal modernist, pulses with Wagnerian sweep, Straussian lushness and astringently alluring harmonic writing beholden to Berg yet somehow fresh. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Black and white, they create the most harmonic version of ebony and ivory since Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Review | Alma Cocina Latina review: A Venezuelan stunner beckons in Baltimore 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Boldly declarative but coolly farseeing, his compositions expanded the range of harmonic possibility in jazz. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Her picturesque character pieces — such as “Flame,” “Clouds” and “In Quiet Mood” — reveal a supreme colorist with an imaginative harmonic vocabulary and firm narrative sense. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The program’s title, “Istanpitta,” refers to a type of dance music, estampie in French, which features repetitive rhythms underneath subtly changing harmonic material. Music in Review: Music in Review: Early Music New York 2012-11-11T23:13:23Z Gesualdo’s music — mainly madrigals and vocal works for the church — has a harmonic boldness hardly known before the 19th century. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z And the striking thing is how fluidly this group weds advanced harmonic movement with instantly accessible groove and dynamics; it's not a stretch to suggest that this band would slay at Bonnaroo. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: A Happy Audience for Kneebody, Whatever Its Genre 2013-01-13T04:50:26Z But what is new is the way Wagner mines an entire opera's worth of musical drama from the myriad harmonic implications that this collection of notes opens up. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z "It has an exquisite harmonic architecture, but the lyric was too dark for me," Wilson notes. Time after time, jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson continues to surprise 2010-05-26T23:22:00Z I've always been drawn to the space you get when you don't have a harmonic instrument playing in the band ... Drummer Antonio Sanchez's group Migration makes Seattle debut at Jazz Alley 2010-03-29T04:01:00Z The first movement, "The Unquestioned Answer," plays with the themes of Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question," with fascinating textures from the percussion section and an air of mystery from the harmonic bed of strings. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z “It’s a different rhythmic language and a different harmonic language too,” said Aaron Johnson, the musical director of “Fela!” and a member of the Afrobeat group Antibalas, the musical’s house band. Femi Kuti, Guarding the Legacy of His Father, Fela 2010-07-11T22:42:00Z His unerring tempos and sensitivity to harmonic subtleties elevate music that might seem maudlin to a touchingly sincere evocation of a bygone age. CD reviews: Cellist Isserlis shows guts in Bach 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The guileless quality of the andante, freely weaving through its harmonic twists, held a somewhat noisy audience in rapt silence, followed by a gentle menuetto and thrilling finale. Dover Quartet’s Kennedy Center debut shows why they should be on must-hear list Improvising around them creates harmonic and melodic potholes. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z That included one ballad with the noble architecture of a Gershwin song and another that seemed to arrive fully formed, with a twinkling motif and a delicate logic of harmonic development. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The Berio works were based on folk songs, though the composer, then a student, folded the tunes into milky modern harmonic textures. Music Review: Julia Bullock Gives New York Recital Debut at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-03-12T20:33:31Z He enlivened the mysteriousness of the slow movement by playing undulant riffs in the accompaniment with hazy sound as the music slipped through unexpected harmonic areas. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2013-02-01T22:33:56Z It became fascinating to hear how the two works, five centuries apart, meshed so completely despite the different harmonic styles, particularly in the similar moods engendered by the music. The King’s Singers rule with vocal artistry 2014-02-16T22:25:25Z Only in the most basic sense — the melodic and harmonic patterns — could it be called the same work. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z But the better way to see SAM's mix of nearly 60 Gauguin works and an equal number of indigenous Polynesian items is as a single harmonic vision. 'Gauguin and Polynesia': dazzling mix-and-match 2012-02-08T18:44:38Z After an opening of glistening harmonics and pizzicato that’s like piqued curiosity, Ms. Shaw’s music takes off to discover surprising melodic turns with irresistible joy and wonder. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z At its finest, especially in the eerie whistling of the soldiers going into battle, or when momentary visions of grandeur tumble into harmonic disarray, it shows the composer near to his best. CLC/RPO/Wetton – review 2012-11-27T17:32:33Z “Royal Toast” also puts Gary Versace to work on piano and a second accordion: another pair of rhythm instruments in the lineup, and more grist for the harmonic mill. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z The plot is of Byzantine complexity, but each colorful personality in this impeccably structured score is vividly characterized through Chabrier’s quirky lyricism and unconventional harmonic procedures. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z Performances, talks and events will focus on topics like quantum theory and harmonic resonance, ideas for a free currency, and hypnotic audiovisual experiences. In Transit: At London Show, Art Meets Science 2011-02-02T11:00:41Z Christos Hatzis' "Coming To" featured very high harmonics and sliding passages in thirds that sounded like the Doppler effect of a passing train. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z In true Gordon style, the music tends violently percussive and extreme, relentless in its industrial repetitions, but with stark exceptions: a section of glassy harmonics, another of keening, drooping melancholy gestures. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But that approach tended not to spark in works that demand a precise ratcheting of harmonic tensions, as in an earthbound Beethoven’s Ninth from 1945-46 and a guileless Brahms’s First from 1950. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Kronstadt’s ruling on Thursday noted the similarity of various hooks in both songs, bass lines, keyboard parts, vocal lines and elements of both songs’ melodic and harmonic composition. Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams lose first round in 'Blurred Lines' case 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Many qualities we esteem today — orchestrally accompanied recitatives, gripping declamation, colorful orchestration, a rich harmonic vocabulary — were greeted warily by a Parisian audience used to less overtly virtuosic music. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z These passing errors, though, were less memorable than the grace of his bow gliding over harmonics, or the control and tension with which he was able to build long crescendos. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z If your ear is right next to an instrument, you hear all these overtones and harmonics and crunches. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Even musical theater titans like Rodgers and Berlin succumbed to harmonic meekness and rhythmic sclerosis as they approached their 70s. John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Four compositions from Redhooker’s second CD, “Vespers,” showed Mr. Griesgraber’s style: the steady arpeggios, slow harmonic motion and simple melodies of Minimalism wielded with a pop-inspired concision, and a dreamy looseness emphasized with electronic effects. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z A discontented wife learns that she has a new admirer in this musical set to Middle-Eastern harmonics. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z More lo-fi than jazz, “Totems II” is nevertheless infused with complex harmonic ideas and bizarre instrumental interludes. 3 new music releases you need this fall 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The New York Times’s chief classical critic Anthony Tommasini described “a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance.” Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z When Meek and, sometimes, drummer James Krivchenia and bassist Max Oleartchik joined in on certain vocal phrases, they simply sang in unison rather than add harmonic sweetening. Review | Big Thief transcends ‘folk’ at 9:30 Club 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Much of “Sun Piano” easily floats from one harmonic center to another, nimble and whimsical. Laraaji’s music has emphasized stillness and calm for decades. Now the world is trying to get on his level. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If there was little innovative about the piece’s harmonic language, its emotions spanned the furious and the gentle, the fierce and the genial. Review: ICE Features Levy Lorenzo on Teacups and Rebekah Heller on Bassoon 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z She pantomimed tapping keys on her microphone as she scatted, light and sharp and sweet, with fluid harmonic movements that mimicked a horn player’s. Review: Jazzmeia Horn, a Jazz Vocalist on the Rise, Steps Up to the Microphone at Dizzy’s 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z By the time he signed with Impulse! in 1961, he had mostly left behind the swift harmonic movement of his earlier work. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z With varying degrees of success he turns the melodies into post-Beach Boys pop with stacked harmonies performed in a barbershop tradition that erases vocal individuality for the sake of a creamy harmonic blend. Critics? 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