He used classical ideas and astringent harmonies, double-handed flurries and spaces.

The imaginatively scored work is atmospheric and spacey with hazy, astringent harmonies.

Rather, the astringent harmonies are ecstatic, energizing.

You miss the astringent harmony and compact structure of his music for "Psycho."

Mr. Dalvabie has an ear for astringent modern harmony.

The performances were beautifully restrained yet alert to the music's rhythmic dislocations and astringent harmony.

The astringent harmony of stacked-up sustained tones is meant to hover with quiet intensity, and the cellphone ruined the effect.

The quietly intense slow movement has astringent harmony and piercing inner voices.

Whole spans of music are built upon a sustained tone, though diffuse textures, astringent harmonies and buzzing figurations keep trying to escape.

The astringent harmonies and asymmetrical phrases come, the composer suggested, from the example of Nordic folk music.