It must be hard for the singers to stay on pitch when the vocal lines take such random turns and the orchestral harmony keeps shifting underneath.

He doesn't have to add palatable Western-style orchestral harmonies to his music to call a score an opera.

The third section, the one that depicts the transcendental ascent into the realm of spirit, features full orchestral chordal harmony in quarter tones.

A moment of leaning into a troubled orchestral harmony had both pleasure and pain.

Gradually, slinky piano lines and sustained pungent orchestral harmonies, written in Mr. Wuorinen's distinctive 12-tone style, emerge and mingle.

Sylla developed the Soukous concept of tingling, repeated, guitar melodies, adding orchestral harmonies, innovative key changes, and introducing tinges of Salsa music.

While orchestral harmonies and the singers' words were often clearer in this pared-down version, the overall effect was like eating fruit salad instead of chocolate cake.

The music is largely derived from Handel, but the composer's themes, recitatives, melodic lines and orchestral harmonies are fashioned into gospel style.

In Shostakovich's music we get several long (six-minute) movements on a grand scale, and there is a long public duel with a superb layering of orchestral harmonies.

Low strings enter, and the mood turns stark, with heavy orchestral harmonies and outbursts of pummeling, thickly chromatic piano chords.