With "Tanga," Bauzá was the first to explore modal harmony (a concept explored much later by Miles Davis and Gil Evans) from a jazz arranging perspective.
Especially during his last decade, Mozart explored chromatic harmony to a degree rare at the time.
Most are in common time (except for Aria Sebaldina, in which all variations are in triple time, like the theme) and explore various constant harmony and melodic outline models.
They let him abandon the melodic symmetry that song texts impose, and they let him explore harmony and rhythm more freely.
Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden at first won few admirers, but later critics have regarded it as a classic American work that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty as models for just social and cultural conditions.
For example, the statement "during his last decade, Mozart explored chromatic harmony to a degree rare at the time," merely refers to the last 10 years of Mozart's life without regard to which calendar years are encompassed.
Classical music exhausted itself exploring diatonic harmony and then moved on to new sophistications.
Like other pop groups of the 1950's, the McGuires never explored chromatic harmony.
No one else explored diatonic harmony with such vision or captured the modal flavors of Central European folk music with such subtlety.
The first band to explore modal harmony (a concept explored much later by Miles Davis and Gil Evans) from a jazz arranging perspective through their recording of "Tanga."