Throughout his chamber music, he uses traditional techniques of counterpoint, incorporating fugues and canons into rich conversational and harmonic textures.
With a harmonic and rhythmic texture drawing from his electronic music, these pieces explore the full extent of the piano's range and dynamics; "looking as modern music should look".
Schumann gets a bum rap for his orchestrations, which are thought to be thick and top-heavy, with melodic lines dominating gloppy harmonic textures.
This is unlike earlier, baroque and classical oratorios, where the chorus prevails, and the orchestra simply acts as a commentary, providing harmonic texture.
It is Neo-Classical in form, dissonant in harmonic texture, hard-working and a little predictable.
Yet throughout, you sense Mr. Andriessen's keen and original ear guiding him as he fashions harmonic textures and instrumental colors.
The decisive thing is a very homogeneous and rigorous harmonic texture conforming to the principles of Webernism (Pousseur 1997, 177).
The music of Dubois is characteristically light hearted with interesting harmonic and melodic textures.
The woodwinds and brass play harmonic fragments, often juxtaposing major thirds in a high register above the darkly dissonant harmonic texture.
The score (also a world premiere) has something in common with Minimalism, but its shifting harmonic texture generates a nervous, melancholy atmosphere alien to that style.