harmonic progression
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To achieve this, producers make sure that the songs vary in instrumentation, harmonic progression and dynamic levels when placed next to one another.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021
"His chorales always have four voices: each carries their own melodic line, creating a rich harmonic progression when played together," writes Google.
From Time • Mar. 21, 2019
A subtler figure, associated with Catholic ritual, is a harmonic progression that combines a tonic chord with a triad on the flattened sixth degree: say, A-flat major against E major.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
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.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2015
He started them off at once on four-part harmony over a figured Bass, making his pupils write each part on a separate stave in order to impress on them the need for accurate harmonic progression.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
