His approach places particular emphasis upon the importance of tonal harmony.

The properties of tonal harmony are exhausted but not abandoned.

For example, studies have shown that 17th-century tonal harmonies are rooted in extensive mathematical relationships.

A type of assimilation known as tonal harmony is involved in Vietnamese reduplication.

At this stage, he was beginning to establish his technique of tonal harmony based on a limited, pre-determined palette.

This gives the piece a distinctive "Chinese" sound, though it uses tonal harmonies.

That said, she focused on composers concerned with expanding tonal harmony and conventional melody rather than discarding them.

The Tristan chord's significance is in its move away from traditional tonal harmony, and even towards atonality.

The sonata was closely tied in the Romantic period to tonal harmony and practice.

His mastery of tonal harmony and the musical forms of the classical era was absolute.