harmonically
Americanadverb
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Its closing track, a harmonically suspended instrumental titled “The Brazilian,” flirted with the avant-garde by repeating the same anti-melody, anchored on a jungle of percussive clangs and hyperkinetic Simmons drum rolls.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
His music proved so harmonically sophisticated and eclectic that it took audiences and critics some years to fully appreciate the genius of his gifts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
U2 frontman Bono wrote: "Where he is this evening... the music will be a little more melodic, a little more interesting harmonically and certainly more rhythmic... and yes, louder."
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
It’s an ever-evolving succession of thick, harmonically ambiguous synthesizer chords, coalescing into a rhythm and pushing it aside, accelerating and falling apart and reconverging.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Figure 5.33: Much Western music is harmonically pretty simple, so it can be very useful just to know I, IV, and V in your favorite keys.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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