Unsurprisingly, four fifths of the trainees surveyed said they thought that eponyms should be abandoned as a way of describing fractures. |
Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths. |
Parker's setting are starker, more monumental, more dependent on modes, open fifths, and contrapuntal imitation. |
There was plenty of jaunty energy in the folkish Intermezzo, enriched by bare fourths and fifths. |
Teaching in a third of lessons was graded unsatisfactory or poor, while learning in two fifths of lessons was below standard. |
Onstage, Harvey reduces the chords to curt, ugly fifths, choppily strummed with downstrokes. |