In place of a tune it has some sophisticated harmonies that complement intelligent lyrics. |
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A jangly piano and high, slightly screechy, David Bowie-ish vocals bowl through an early New Wave review with slightly odd harmonies. |
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Beautiful harmonies, including an ending Latin prayer, are bathed in a delicate blanket of accordions and Spanish guitars. |
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This is a vocal pop band, not an acid rock band, and there's only so many weird things you can do with group harmonies. |
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On top of this mess are those patented gorgeous two-part harmonies, uncharacteristically straining to make themselves heard over the racket. |
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Inviting harmonies and well-tempered innovations in rhythm and accompaniment add to the charm. |
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Here it's given a starker treatment, compellingly enhanced by Eliza's keening harmonies. |
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For three minutes, violins slowly weep, guitars are slowly strummed, and falsetto harmonies are echoed into oblivion. |
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The act was formed two years ago when the girls were given an assignment to write a song with harmonies. |
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It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds. |
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And the closing title track, where the Kronos strings weep sad harmonies, is a lament of utter anguish unlike anything else on the disc. |
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The music was fun and in that situation I liked singing soprano better than singing alto, although I do love the inner harmonies, too. |
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The guitar work here is promising, with some alt-rock influences providing a welcome respite from the usual thirds-based harmonies. |
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Its stature resides in its quietude and simplicity, yet with an inner energy which reflects a lifetime's contemplation of the harmonies of art. |
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There is a joyous incandescence in the harmonies, a playful energy and a richness of colouration. |
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Nonetheless, the spooky harmonies create a wash that flows over the slight acoustic lilts, creating a very pretty pop moment. |
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The four girls, Kelly, Tara and sisters Ciara and Cathy, blend pure, lilting harmonies with timeless pop melodies. |
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The words work best as a means to an end, leaving the melodies and lilting harmonies for your foremost enjoyment. |
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To me the musical arrangement, instrumentation, vocals and harmonies, are just as important as the lyrics. |
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Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies. |
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The harmonies become slightly more astringent, and one hears a new fascination with cross-rhythms and syncopation. |
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Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs. |
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Their only curveballs thrown here are Beach Boys harmonies and the same augmented chord progression, and even these twists are rationed. |
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Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds. |
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These harmonies, however, fit into the jazz idiom just as bop made its way into the mainstream, enriching both. |
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The band offers up a catchy mix of mostly acoustic-centered pop, backdropped by obvious harmonies, reverb-drenched vocals and singalong lyrics. |
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Not surprisingly, the music is simply beautiful, filled with emotion-packed vocals, lush backing harmonies, and rich sonic textures. |
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The Montrealer's solo work is acoustic guitar-based with support from bass, drums, mandolin, strings and spare harmonies. |
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But then, having stripped down musical composition, he infused it with African and Balinese harmonies, and made it more technologically complex. |
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While the concept is a good one, Swift over-emphasizes breaks and scratching at the expense of vocals and harmonies. |
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The absolute clarity of the orchestral texture allowed for the sometimes jarring harmonies and raucous percussion effects to be highlighted. |
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At times, the record conjures up the image of nine men in carnival masks performing barbershop harmonies. |
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The crunch of guitar is still well and truly there, but the band believe in harmonies and melodies too on this self-titled debut. |
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Their meticulously crafted melodies and tight harmonies recreate that awesome sound of the seventies. |
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Andrew can pick out a lovely melody but his harmonies often seem out and he's better with melodies than he is with rhythms, for the moment. |
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The songs merge a Gomez-like quirkiness, dreamy melodies and harmonies to die for. |
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Bartok was a radical, even in the early piano music he was experimenting with conventional harmonies and tonality. |
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Too often the band's lush harmonies and soothing guitars are accompanied by an annoying tendency to be too clever by half. |
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His musical language is spare in style, its melodies and harmonies based on old church modes and the pentatonic scales of Finnish folk-music. |
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I think young students will enjoy the fun rhythms, tuneful melodies and the influence of jazz harmonies. |
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The sweetness of the vocal harmonies is tempered by the rawness of the guitar and the unremitting monotony of the drum patterns. |
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Here he takes the traditional polyphonic form of church music and gives it a modern twist, with unexpected endings and harmonies. |
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Because when people used to singing in harmonies start to sing along, they sing along in harmony. |
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The majority of the record is mid-tempo and the dreamy guitars and harmonies throughout manage to create a blue mood. |
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It acts in effect as a shorthand for reading the other orchestral and voice parts above the bass line and for playing the harmonies. |
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If you are going to be doing anything with multi-track harmonies, how can you sound like anybody else? |
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Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project. |
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Jaded synths and multi-tracked harmonies lurk above a razor-fine piano note until the vocals lift into a Franciscan chant of helpless beauty. |
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Its singing melodies, rocking accompaniments and romantic harmonies advance the composition of nocturnes from Field to Chopin. |
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Interior surfaces may be created historically accurate or venturesomely to reflect contemporary harmonies and standards of taste. |
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Get rid of your confoundedly repetitive harmonies and phony teenaged angst. |
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One hears the fullest statement of the Dowland song, with its original harmonies, at the end. |
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The album is overflowing with sweet harmonies and guitar riffs and beats that are edgy without being overbearing. |
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And while the record lacks those sonic eruptions, it does pack waves and waves of sweet harmonies. |
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The elegant expressions of Parisian Cubism are the superior works of art if you value subtle composition and exquisite harmonies of tone. |
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As music is about tunes, chords, and harmonies, not notes per se, so chemistry is about compounds and molecules, not elements. |
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From the stark opening chords to the unsettling harmonies of the Adagio, the orchestra is assured. |
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The mellow tracks mix gauzy female harmonies with easy rhythms for a swoony effect. |
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Featuring on the show will be percussive sounds and harmonies of African music across the continent. |
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But there is a joyous incandescence in the harmonies too, a playful energy and a richness of colouration. |
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The harmonies here flicker far more insubstantially and the piece is united as much by a rhythmic figure as anything else. |
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Their performances were polished, with superb harmonies and flawless production. |
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His recognizable croon is as heartfelt as ever but it's the three-part harmonies that really transport these songs. |
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On its stronger tracks the vocal harmonies are dangerously infectious, inviting the listener to join in with the fun-filled sing-alongs. |
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A folky lament on death and love, it never sounds as dark as its lyrics intend because of tremendous harmonies. |
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Carina Round drops in to provide the prettiest of pretty harmonies and for just one song the world is at peace. |
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Newton's axiom on slicing the pie to satisfy musical harmonies is reminiscent of Kepler's Pythagorean speculations. |
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Pythagorean natural philosophers read musical harmonies into the universe at large. |
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She had to play it all by ear, and this tune had some glaringly discordant harmonies. |
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He is, of course, also drawn to printed textiles and to the way you can juxtapose apparently dissonant colours to create new harmonies. |
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At their most lighthearted, the duo's bouncy ditties are anchored by sumptuous harmonies and effervescent acoustic guitar, mandolin and dulcimer. |
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The songs do have some vocal basslines, nonsense syllables, and a cappella passages, but the harmonies rarely evoke '50s or early '60s doo-wop. |
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It is a gentle, almost languid waltz, with a simple melody, and even simpler harmonies and construction. |
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Michael Franklin-Browne plays his drums almost symphonically, bringing a sense of grand architecture to riff-driven songs with rich pop harmonies. |
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The music is cool, full and rich, upbeat pop with nice vocal harmonies. |
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Their first single opens with a loping reggae rhythm topped off with barbershop quartet harmonies, before unexpectedly exploding into big-band jazz. |
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Girly vocals and madwoman warbling sit side by side in three-part harmonies, while clean hooks and serious riffage carry the tunes along with an easy urgency. |
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The first of these is the pedal, typically a sustaining or reiteration of a note in the bass while harmonies change above it, creating dissonance with the bass in the process. |
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The formula features a sort of sing-by-committee affair that sometimes forgivingly uses three-part harmonies to drown out the nasal lead vocal mewling. |
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His chorus blends the most modern harmonies with old-fashioned swing. |
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It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies. |
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The violinist plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong. |
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The melodies and harmonies make it sound like it belongs on an emo record. |
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Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone. |
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One unusual aspect of this music is that the rich upper partials of the voices bring out the simple harmonies of the hymns in a way not normally heard. |
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His music's lush, even sensuous harmonies make it a joy to sing. |
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You still get the glorious harmonies, of course, and the dextrous guitar playing still stands out, rather than being submerged underneath the raised volume. |
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The brushwork is exuberantly coloristic, the palette composed of delicately keyed harmonies of rose and coral, cool aquamarines, frothy whites, pale golds, and blues. |
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They fill the room with beautiful harmonies and toe-tapping rhythms. |
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This process could not go on indefinitely, and in 1908 Schoenberg made the break into atonality, abandoning the attempt to fit atonal harmonies into tonal forms. |
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You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies. |
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He putters to a piano whilst the band provide gentle harmonies around him. |
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Easy guitar strumming, a touch of piano, pleasant harmonies and a memorable soaring falsetto in the chorus are all that are needed to make this a dead cert for qualification. |
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If performers desired a keyboard accompaniment to a Bradbury arrangement, one could be improvised using the soprano and bass voices as the basis for appropriate harmonies. |
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It's a wonderful pastiche complete with intricate guitars, massive melodies, heavenly harmonies, pop vibrancy, indie licks, and really astute attitude. |
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You'll hear a marimba and dulcimer every so often in this crescendoing collection of stellar four-part harmonies. |
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The teacher should attempt to shade and color the harmonies with as much exaggeration as possible to lead the student into a more musical realization of the work. |
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The vocal harmonies have been completely phased out, and to some extent, the vocals themselves are of tertiary importance outside of a simple rhythmic device. |
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We workshopped it intensively, wrote and rewrote, worked and reworked the movement, the sound, the chant, the songs, the harmonies, the dance, the percussion. |
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The harmonies belong more to modern concert music than to pop. |
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The resulting piano duos are effective, referencing their sources but with a new, complex postmodern voice that moves in untraditional harmonies and rhythms. |
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The showbands took the party sound and harmonies, refined them, classed them up with brass and keyboards, and finished the mix with a dash of Las Vegas. |
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Chromatic and borrowed harmonies in progressions are introduced, such as chords of the Neapolitan sixth, augmented sixth, and altered dominants, mediants and submediants. |
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Aside from a couple of tracks, the funk-rock has by and large been replaced by sonic melody and harmonies that utilise synthesisers, overdubs and even Spanish guitars. |
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Why is it condemnable to craft songs with harmonies and choruses so finely constructed they immediately bring to mind some of modern rock's best and brightest talents? |
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They projected the first movement with energy, with an eerie second section of pizzicati textures and augmented harmonies leading to the powerful coda. |
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It's the spirituality and soul of the blues filtered through barbershop harmonies, but accompanied in counterpoint by dehumanized pulses and drones. |
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The incandescent vocal harmonies collide with fractured, defiant soundbite lyrics and their see-sawing, splintered instrumentation. |
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Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. |
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Strickland seemed to bear in his heart strange harmonies and unadventured patterns, and I foresaw for him an end of torture and despair. |
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They have recorded a number of their acapella songs of old standard hymns and gospel songs with their smooth harmonies. |
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In fact, Ilaiyaraaja was one of the first Indian film composers to blend Western classical music harmonies and strings with Indian film music. |
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With it's choppy guitar and woo-woo harmonies, this is indentikit pop made from Britpop leftovers. |
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Pulsating beats ignited into a cacophony of crashing cymbals, pinging xylophones and halo worthy angelic harmonies. |
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Together with bassist Suse Bear, she creates delicious harmonies that float across their jangly pop. |
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And I always thought that some of the main characters of the opera would have to be the tonic, the dominant, and the subdominant harmonies. |
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Ewazen's neo-romantic harmonies and arching melodies match well with the symphonic lushness of this Brahmsian instrumentation. |
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Kenny is unabashed by the bathroom dilemma and when he's in the shower he belts out 1988 Bros hits, including the screechingly high harmonies. |
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We wanted to use as many two and three part harmonies as possible and lots of Hammond organ, Mellotron and Memotron. |
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The first movement is filled with inventive counterpoint, lovely melodics and rich pungent harmonies that call to mind French impressionism. |
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Hawaiian Air has glissando lift-offs and clattering drums leading to creamy, skyscraping climactic harmonies. |
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A gloriously upbeat track that mixes Phil Spector 60s pop with glockenspiels and chanting vocal harmonies. |
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Flotsam And Jetsam is a favourite, and there are some lovely horn harmonies in Gneiss. |
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With infectious harmonies and a perpetual peppiness, this is an extremely listenable band. |
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Ricochet will demonstrate their vocal harmonies in a special doo-wop song they put together to announce the CMA Broadcast Award winners. |
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The Beach Boys harmonies heard on City Pals and off-kilter time signature of L'Ocean are the only real highlights. |
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The proportions used in Sacred Geometry are the same as those in musical scales and harmonies. |
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But the glorious harmonies and wickedsmart lyrics combine to lift it beyond mere navel gazing. |
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The tonal palette is rich, featuring postimpressionist harmonies and contemporary pop rhythms. |
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Harmony is the end result of counterpoint, and figured bass is a visual representation of those harmonies commonly employed in musical performance. |
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In Example 1, the key signature suggests C major, however upon listening to the harmonies, nowhere do we hear the expected tonic, subdominant and dominant tonalities. |
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The song spirals onwards and upwards on handclaps and vocal harmonies. |
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The string parts often reflect a harmonic conception as well, projecting harmonies through arpeggiations that are similar to those played by the piano. |
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The piquant mixture of strings, celeste and harp captured Ravel's faux-oriental harmonies and in Beauty and the Beast the latter galumphed menacingly. |
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But these harmonies can be distinguished from silencings in which the content of certain interpretations requires or advocates obliterating the voice of another. |
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Incorporating upbeat guitar riffs, boy-band harmonies and honky-tonk piano, I reckon they're going to be massive so get in early and impress your mates. |
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Doberman isn't some blitzkrieg of a tune to go with the title but another soft idle musical saunter with interlocking harmonies and chimming guitars. |
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Sitting somewhere between the lushness of Norah Jones and quirkiness of Joanna Newsom, the quartet create songs that intertwine melancholy with rich harmonies. |
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Drawing on Latin American harmonies, rhythms and popular music, Norton creates 2-4 page light jazz sambas, beguines, bossa novas, rumbas and a mambo. |
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The Beach Boys harmonies heard on City Pals and off-kilter time signature and beat-heavy production of L'Ocean make them the only real highlights. |
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In other words, the harmonies are multiples of many fundamental frequencies, not just of the fundamental frequency of the simpler Fourier series approach. |
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The publication of Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol by John Roberts in 1859 provided congregations with a body of standard tunes that were less complex with unadorned harmonies. |
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In turn, the Byrds' vocal harmonies inspired those of Yes, and British electric folk bands like Fairport Convention, who emphasised instrumental virtuosity. |
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Almost immediately the three were cowriting and then onstage together, Nettles at the main mike with Bush and Hall backing her on guitar, mandolin, and harmonies. |
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