Our harmonies were derived by jamming, and when we'd jam the harmonies would intertwine.
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A lot of harmonies are very parallel but our harmonies dip and intertwine and I think there's an Appalachian influence, too.
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It was so cool to work on harmonies with her and Bill, because they both loved the more predictable country harmonies but they also liked unusual intervals.
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Chaka Khan is very deep in her harmonies, and here is Whitney laying every one of her harmonies," Walden remembered, "and Whitney was so inspired that she just went 'Chaka Khan!
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I really wanted to have harmonies in a big way.
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There are vocal harmonies on there that are literally wrong.
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"Nebula" features a carefully pulsing organ layered beneath breathy harmonies.
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When the harmonies came in — it was a beautiful choice.
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Harmonies distant from one another intermingle in an open space.
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Very precise, with intriguing way of mixing moods and harmonies.
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But the possibility to make harmonies is what interested me.
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Eventually, beat and voice disappear, leaving only apparitions of harmonies.
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It even comes complete with Rich Homie Quan's angelic harmonies.
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Then there's something like Pet Sounds, with 10-track vocal harmonies.
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Their harmonies are some of my favourites that are out there.
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No bright synth or layered harmonies to be found here, folks.
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I wanted to do a song with a lot of harmonies.
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Their harmonies are kind of unmatched in hip-hop, only imitated.
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And that opinion is: He liked them better with five harmonies.
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The brooding track finds both artists showcasing their signature, crawling harmonies.
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They're all beautifully spare, gently uplifting, and full of rich harmonies.
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We connected over a mutual love for showtunes and close harmonies.
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Banks sings the backing harmonies; her voice is rich and gentle.
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Bernstein's piercing harmonies during subdued passages came through with extra intensity.
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Minor-mode harmonies emerge, but they have a whispery, spectral character.
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"Everything that we did was based around a cappella harmonies," he said.
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And Brian is unchallenged when it comes to chord progressions and harmonies.
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Super producer Mark Ronson tweeted that Corden "killed those million reasons harmonies."
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And I endlessly parsed the harmonies of "Smooth Criminal" in music theory.
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All confident vocalists, they shared a love for The Beach Boys' harmonies.
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Drew: Her voice is really nice too, those whispery, almost jazzy harmonies.
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Their absorbing details pack as much punch as their overall radiant harmonies.
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Mr. Adams stacks up tones to create wondrously strange and alluring harmonies.
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It's a chorus finding new arrangements and harmonies each time it assembles.
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Close, mystical harmonies are tinged with microtonal dissonances that vibrate almost visibly.
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It still feels exciting to listen to shiny music with lovely harmonies.
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The use of the 70s-style harmonies and chords was real neat.
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Ms. Saariaho's music is rich with sustained sonorities, shimmering harmonies and slides.
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Crossing lines are rare, and harmonies tend to encircle rather than intertwine.
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Joe Iconis's new musical celebrates women's prison flicks and girl group harmonies.
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In one room, juniors rehearse harmonies at the piano, again and again.
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Karaoke app to give you a chance to make sweet harmonies with him.
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But it really works, especially when you're changing the note and doing harmonies.
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Lyrics, melodies, and harmonies stick with her, thanks to her intact semantic memory.
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It's a record that effortlessly moves through his signature harmonies and floating songwriting.
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Any given chord progression could include unusual harmonies and/or unexpected finger placements.
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I can sing my own harmonies and also these are songs I wrote.
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"Polyphony", music of interweaving tunes and harmonies, is part of humankind's common heritage.
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I love doing harmonies with myself, I think there's so much to explore.
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Vocally, it's almost entirely Longstreth, although there are some subtle female background harmonies.
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Come for the harmonies, stay for Minchin's spectacularly creepy impression of the president.
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Compositional elements that at first glance seem incongruous or haphazard reveal unanticipated harmonies.
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A baby is fed, swaddled in radiant backing harmonies, and put to sleep.
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The theme is like a subdued song for chorus, with curiously murky harmonies.
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Its references to vintage big-band jazz were refracted through some piercing harmonies.
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And it offered a tonic: Optimistic harmonies drive it from the very beginning.
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Electronics join with tart wind harmonies and resonant pitched percussion during the opening.
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In a film full of pleasant harmonies, a note of dread comes in.
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Ms. Halvorson, a guitarist, uses bent notes and small, dissonant harmonies to incite.
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Then the sopranos make their entrance, and the harmonies shift in surprising directions.
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If you haven't heard of Liszt's "Poetic and Religious Harmonies," you're not alone.
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Visitors can press buttons to hear each instrument and create their own harmonies.
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You can have a thrilling 90 seconds with roller-coaster harmonies focusing on two words only, followed by a single line of plainchant, followed by counterpoint outlining harmonies completely at variance with what we would understand to be the rules.
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The twins deliver harmonies that are tighter, sharper, more mature—more cognizant and deliberate.
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Especially compelling was the way they moved harmonies either up or down in parallel.
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They also claim the two songs utilize similar overall structures, melodic rhythms and harmonies.
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One Direction drops some sick harmonies and reveals the weirder sides of fame. 8.
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That's why the Beach Boys' harmonies are so complex and interesting and never boring.
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Tracks like "Karma" are full of these immaculately stacked harmonies and lushly orchestrated instrumentation.
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On Cranberry, though, the hushed, instinctively simple harmonies set Cranberry apart from that lot.
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Yet here I am singing with these guys, hitting these improvised harmonies with them.
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Natalie Maines' powerful, twangy voice and the group's tight harmonies fit the melody perfectly.
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Over Balla's percussive, clanging guitar work, their yelping voices settle into compelling harmonies throughout.
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Eventually there is a clarity and it's Walker's high harmonies that draw it out.
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Here is dance with its own evocative panoply of melodies, rhythms, harmonies, dynamics, constructions.
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He helped devise its language of thick harmonies, zipping melodies and steamed-up rhythm.
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But shifting harmonies in the middle section signify that her love for Hippolyte endures.
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The result is charmingly retro, with rich harmonies and an emphasis on live instrumentation.
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NSYNC had harmonies and personalities, but performance for the group meant complex choreographed dances.
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But this time the supportive harmonies are thick with intensifying intervals and pungent bits.
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It is a contemplative concert work — utterly mesmerizing, despite modern-leaning harmonies — and enchanting.
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His command can feel almost absolute; his harmonies tend to be weighty and cluttered.
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She paints around him, maintaining intimate contact and swathing his sound in limpid harmonies.
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It was a marvel of understatement — unhurried electronic beats, pared-down harmonies, empty spaces.
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Yet diaphanous, elusive harmonies cushion Shirley's reflections, which unfold as searching, long-lined phrases.
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An elegiac second theme offers lyrical repose, though there's a subtext of unsettling harmonies.
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His melodies are direct and often plangent, his harmonies and rhythms sturdy and repetitious.
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As we listen, we're constantly anticipating what melodies, harmonies, and rhythms may come next.
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I wanted Gwen to sing on the track and to play harp, and I knew it would be fantastic, but I had no idea the direction she'd take it, layering up harmonies upon harmonies that set the tone for all contributions to follow.
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Its harmonies are rich, its stories are compelling, its humor is bleak but still present.
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There's colorful vocoding, overlapping harmonies, martial drumming, and a whole lot of overlapping synth work.
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Sometimes I'd start the higher harmonies and I'd dip down and Cindy would dip up!
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The project was a perfect blend of Thugger's otherwordly wails and Future Hendrix's raspy harmonies.
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Harmonies and communal singing have always seemed important to the band from the get-go.
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Emily Yacina sings harmonies behind Giannascoli throughout, a perfect mirror for the lyrical half-sentences.
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It features powerhouse quartet harmonies from Kenton Chen, Luke Edgemon, Matt Bloyd and Mario Jose.
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High-voiced wailing and howled harmonies that screamed through the boom of that big drum.
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Once he compares Lennon and McCartney's harmonies to vinaigrette, another time to oil and vinegar.
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Warm and intimate, Hayat's soprano balancing Gil's alto, their voices weave together in unexpected harmonies.
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The beauty and the storytelling of the melodies combined with extremely haunting, interesting, painful harmonies.
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His rich, carefully shaded harmonies draw equally on gospel, R&B and the avant-garde.
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"Kill Me Baby" contains Buddy Holly-meets-Buzzcocks harmonies, screeching guitar wails, and abrasive feedback.
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For audiences accustomed to Tchaikovsky's lyricism and Mozart's familiar harmonies, this music borders on incomprehensibility.
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Fans hoping the band's new music would retain its distinctive folk harmonies are in luck.
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There are no words to describe this one's haunting beauty, expressive sophistication and provocative harmonies.
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But on "ACE," the steady, cyclical harmonies deliver just the right level of understated grace.
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Instead, coming to the fore is a rich shadow play of harmonies and earth tones.
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I let the rich harmonies of the singers fill me, the soulful trumpet move me.
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Mixed-gender choirs are rare, mainly because of the close harmonies required by the music.
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His harmonies are so clear and well illuminated that you can reckon with each note.
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Harmonies were worked out; a guitar amp was deemed too loud; nervous energy was palpable.
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Instead of using traditional R&B harmonies, the group is almost robotic in their delivery.
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The first movement, "Mother Chords," unfolds in gentle, pulsing waves of strange, soft, mystical harmonies.
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Mr. Mengelberg's dissonant harmonies and unorthodox phrasing were reminiscent of Thelonious Monk, an acknowledged influence.
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Her tunes scatter and dance, changing harmonies often and wreathing themselves around her prolix vocals.
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As I began studying it, I fell in love with the harmonies, the rich chords.
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No matter the musical vibe, though, the Flatts play to their strength: their lustrous signature harmonies.
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Especially the sweet, sweet harmonies of "One Day More" that they belted out for the finale.
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The second movement, marked "lugubrious and sad," is thick with ruminative melodic lines and heaving harmonies.
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Kate and I didn't do the normal harmonies, we were singing out some really crazy stuff.
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At the same time, it nailed the harmonies that made Miranda's musical such a massive success.
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With early rock idols the Everly Brothers as inspiration, he trained himself to sing complex harmonies.
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Jae Stephens "2019" If you want a quick masterclass in harmonies, give Jae Stephens a listen.
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Buoyed by growling guitar licks and the band's trademark harmonies, it became a No. 1 hit.
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Though overflowing with multitracked harmonies and clever arrangements, it was recorded on a four-track console.
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Dancers show not just the music's changing rhythms and energies but also its melodies and harmonies.
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But it also progresses toward solace, grounding its closing songs in steadfast melodies and consoling harmonies.
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And at 91, Ms. Carroll plays with an impeccable technique in which harmonies burst into flower.
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His plaintive lines float atop undulant orchestral ripples and bucolic woodwind harmonies tweaked with clashing intervals.
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Did Bon Iver's Justin Vernon secretly copy his spooky space harmonies from extreme a cappella arrangements?
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Meditative guitars lead into billowing, multitudinous vocal harmonies sustaining the song's title above an orchestral backdrop.
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The harmonies are so extreme that the singers in the original production refused to perform it.
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I fell asleep that night to the sound of the trio singing harmonies beside the fire.
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But during reflective passages, searching vocal lines are backed by tremulous harmonies and delicate instrumental flecks.
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In this restless score Mr. Vajda reveals an ear for tart harmonies and unusual instrumental colors.
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During a nearly two-hour set, instrumentalists played slowly unfolding modes over electronic, just-intonation harmonies.
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By the early 1980s the Jive Five were applying their vocal harmonies to more modern compositions.
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The harmonies in "The Tailor of Fitzrovia" suggested to me a composer you haven't mentioned: Britten.
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The ensemble exploits a wide range of sounds, from ethereal harmonies to guttural cries and yelps.
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The piano continues to twist and turn, with dreamy harmonies segueing into frenetic, toccata-like eruptions.
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They were probably unemployed musical theater actors hired to sing basic harmonies while wearing velvet costumes.
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Rap bars effortlessly grew into spirited harmonies about complicated relationships and the dangers of social media.
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The duet is lovely and easy, their close harmonies blending together like fresh swirls of butter.
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The two seem genuinely at ease singing with each other, figuring the harmonies out as they go.
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The dreamy opener "10K" showcases her sonic leap, boasting a pogoing bassline, ethereal harmonies, and woozy guitars.
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And while Fifth Harmony is now technically four harmonies, their sound hasn't been hurt in Cabello's absence.
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Matarazzo backed Williams up with harmonies during a performance of "Misery Business" from Paramore's 26 album Riot!.
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Their mixture of harmonies and amazing beats is why they decided to title their EP Sugar Symphony.
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I couldn't think of another band that made that sound, but with lots of melodies and harmonies.
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But it remains to be seen what effect their soaring harmonies will have on Mr Trump's soul.
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From the moment the first harmonies hit, it's impossible not to fall under some sort of spell.
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The color scheme produced in a particular performance is based on a reading of the harmonies played.
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When you were recording in the studio, you really had to record eight tracks to get harmonies.
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Nonetheless, the chorus's message, echoed in Brother Sun's close harmonies and trenchant lyrics, elicited an enthusiastic response.
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Diffuse pungent orchestral harmonies, with pitches that split and chords that slide, cushion the tender vocal writing.
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All of these performances are structured as dialogues, as opposed to soliloquies supported by guest artists' harmonies.
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Clinton grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he gravitated toward the jubilant harmonies of doo-wop.
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Her trio's arrangements moved among quiet transparency, bluesy swing and percussive intricacy, shifting harmonies along the way.
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Its chants, tangy harmonies and hints of Cecil B. DeMille-style bombast conjure a realm of exoticism.
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Popstars have to juggle emotional expression, breath control, choreography, click tracks and backing harmonies all at once.
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J.P. The master pianist Erroll Garner was known for his plush, fluent harmonies and his lilting fluidity.
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The vocal harmonies were sometimes so astringently captivating, I was convinced they must have been carefully composed.
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The song has a looped beat, multitracked vocal harmonies and a dramatically sliding, Bollywood-tinged string section.
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However, the paintings are as much about distilled form and color harmonies as they are about narrative.
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His colors can be soft and gentle, but the harmonies are charged and highly specific in tone.
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Field recordings of Swan River water creatures and marshes meld with surprising harmonies and minimalist soul rhythms.
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There are stretches of misty orchestral sonorities in which fidgety figurations get batted around over dense harmonies.
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So he has to pry these tunes apart and solder them together with simpler and bolder harmonies.
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The music suggests a wistful folk song, cushioned by plaintive harmonies and restless lines in the instruments.
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When the piano dreamily enters with wistful, wandering lines spiked with flinty harmonies, Bernstein just listens, overcome.
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Anyone who knows the American South knows the cultural primacy of community, church, harmonies figurative and literal.
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Its harmonies are constantly swaying back and forth with subtle dissonances, a never-ending push and pull.
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Doing nothing that felt exaggerated or overwrought, Ms. Wang emphasized unsettled harmonies and de-emphasized melodic integrity.
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It's a prayer to set aside ego in favor of service, echoed by the stars' seamless harmonies.
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Songs like "Now" had keening harmonies and a crisp sound that only die-hard fans knew about.
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As he was belting out the chorus, they texted the fourth to come to sing the harmonies.
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The album, titled simply "August, 2017," combines drones, rustles and simple harmonies that beckon and dissolve. G.R.
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By the end, the two instruments are in sublime retreat, harmonies humming and washing away, still conjoined.
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They are virtuoso composers; they are melodic composers; they are fascinating in their harmonies and their orchestration.
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The score, meanwhile, is a unique blend of neo-classical elements, Eastern European folklore and French harmonies.
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We cherish the capacity of voices to come together, to balance harmonies or resolve one another's melodies.
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The middle movement was mesmerizing, with pointillist-like strands of mingling piano lines against bittersweet orchestra harmonies.
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As music moved toward maximum complexity, composers in various countries rebelled against the rebellion, reclaiming elemental harmonies.
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"Candy Cane Rainbow" would sound right at home on Abbey Road, with its "Because"-esque vocal harmonies.
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Together, the voices created hazy sounds and lingering harmonies, with both wide-spaced chords and piercing clusters.
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I don't think I would have been able to orchestrate that together with the harmonies and everything.
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Bring in Mohna's smoky vocals and crooning harmonies, and it's like wading into a placid lake at dusk.
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Not only do they riff off the words, they provide ad libs and harmonies like only they can.
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I guess she loved the song so much and thought of the harmonies and sent it to us.
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His version of "Ashes to Ashes" trades the original's electronics for hushed piano and harmonies from Karen Elson.
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Among the other treats are two collaborations with the Quebe Sisters, the Texas fiddling trio with sublime harmonies.
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A vadouvan aioli brought subtle harmonies to another bar snack, pink and juicy meatballs fried in bread crumbs.
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I love Lucius — their songwriting is terrific, their harmonies are exquisite, and their live performances are pure joy.
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Too many, including "God Save the Queen", suffer from dreary harmonies and platitudes about being victorious and glorious.
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Morgane Stapleton is a vocal powerhouse, and the duo share the spotlight – and heavenly harmonies – at each gig.
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I love figuring out tricky progressions, chord voicings, harmonies ... that sort of dorky stuff, no matter what genre.
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I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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There's loads of twin harmonies and interesting melodies on Gods Of Violence , but they never outweigh the thrash.
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"Spirituals are choral harmonies sung by African slaves in the United States," she explained in her show notes.
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The harmonies, the melodies, the songs about love, all hit me unlike any album up to that point.
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Its winsome examination of first love leaned heavily on electro-pop synth pulse and New Wave singsong harmonies.
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Scrubbing, tickling, spreading thick jazz harmonies or jabbing hints of the blues, it was structure as sheer elation.
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There's the Mendelssohn music that Balanchine chose, abuzz with summer sounds and the confusions and harmonies of love.
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Musically, though, with its acoustic dueting and gentle harmonies, it's some of Flight of the Conchords' strongest work.
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I don't know any of the artists on it but it's very lively and upbeat with great harmonies.
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He ignores the rhythms that mesh Beethoven's grand construction together; and instead picks on isolated notes and harmonies.
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The mostly slow, pensive music churns and breathes with hazy and mystical harmonies that linger, swell and overlap.
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The beat is a subtle microcosm of samba's percussion batteries, while the beguiling melodies conceal sophisticated jazz harmonies.
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The song's delicate production, Sahbabii's equally graceful harmonies, and the contrasting pro-gun content create a perfect storm.
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I was writing songs at nine years old, singing En Vogue and making harmonies up for my sisters.
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In the first section, "Captive Voices," the orchestra plays a subdued mass of hazy harmonies and fidgety lines.
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Lucius is built around Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who always sing in unison, with awesomely gorgeous harmonies.
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A Brazilian pianist of richly shaded harmonies, Ms. Elias is equally influenced by Bill Evans and bossa nova.
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But the harmonies — quickly shifting, comforting and peculiar at once — served as reminders of Mr. Lang's individual artistry.
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Often, as characters sing, threads of darting melodic lines run through the orchestra embedded within dense, chromatic harmonies.
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CARAMANICA Vocal harmonies twist and turn, completely a cappella (overdubbed) at first, in "Receipts" as Josiah Wise — a.k.a.
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Marilyn Lerner: Harmonies continues at the CUE Art Foundation (137 West 25th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through October 15.
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With subtle harmonies and occasional deliberate discord, the voices flowed back and forth, complementing and counterpointing each other.
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This band's other great summer song evokes Coney Island — and cool vocal harmonies — on a sweltering summer day.
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The harmonies were right on key, with a Japanese mood that didn't cross the line into outright imitation.
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The band makes a deeply rooted form of experimental jazz, tending toward dark, viscid harmonies and patient escalations.
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It may be the old school vocal harmonies or the yeehaw agenda popping out in the guitar part.
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Mr. Zeitlin, who turned 80 last month, has always kept his crisp, rich harmonies fastened to crisscrossing cadences.
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Their comeback release, "BooCheeMish," matches the choir's folkloric harmonies to multitudes of instruments, not all of them traditional.
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There are intense episodes with instruments breaking into skittish bursts and pitches piling up into tart, raw harmonies.
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With a kind of offhand savvy, he simplifies Monk's harmonies and lets his ludic rhythms take the lead.
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Ms. Prestini's music conveys the surreal visuals through gently repetitive figures, disparately overlapping lines and swooshing, sliding harmonies.
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The string quartet plays episodes of contemplative, modal-tinged harmonies that lend a timeless cast to the storytelling.
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"You'll learn to laugh once you've finished crying," she assures, and her vocals group themselves in bright harmonies.
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"You'll learn to laugh once you've finished crying," she assures, and her vocals group themselves in bright harmonies.
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Some sang liturgical music in harmonies late into the night as they stood vigil, while others recited prayers.
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He brought uncommon breadth to the opening of the spacious first movement, with its arching theme and dreamy harmonies.
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There will be no flawless harmonies, mind-blowing beat boxing or Disney duets going down at Kirstin Maldonado's wedding.
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So when I'm writing a song, I'll hear strings, harmonies, percussion that matches with the emotion of the song.
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The besties are a heavenly duo with harmonies so on point, they'll bring tears (of laughter) to your eyes.
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It's almost like a lullaby, with the layered vocal harmonies, that ushers you gently back out of her world.
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For "Day & Age" (2008), Mr Flowers often overdubbed his voice with harmonies, which made his singing feel less urgent.
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Longstreth started getting heavily into harmonies on Rise Above, at which point he was surrounded by talented female vocalists.
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They even sing some harmonies in Spanish, even though at first they didn't even know what they were saying.
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I create the melodic structure of the song by creating the skeletal base of the harmonies on the piano.
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"Her ear for harmonies, her voice, her lyrics and arrangements are all really beautiful and/or devastating," he notes.
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His speaking voice matches the contagiousness of his coarse, off-kilter harmonies, which offset his still-developing lyrical skillset.
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I'd done some minor back-ups and harmonies, but I had never been the lead singer of a band.
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Known for their burnished tight harmonies, sophisticated if nontraditional arrangements and witty onstage banter, the Limeliters were wildly successful.
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And in the double-stopped opening of the Beethoven, his vibrato was so wide that it distorted the harmonies.
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Kendrick, on the other hand, chimes in on the harmonies to show off that Pitch Perfect voice of hers.
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Barnett and Vile trade verses, musing on the life of a solitary songwriter, before laying harmonies over one another.
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Then there's his way of lacing harmonies together, giving a subtle emphasis to a single note within each chord.
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Her recent "A Clarion Call" is packed with haunted harmonies and riotous humor that Ives might well have admired.
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As one of the main songwriters in New Hampshire's MMOSS, Tuttle blended dreamy kaleidoscopic pop with cascading guitar harmonies.
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His is a distinctive voice, spiked by cluster-like harmonies, at once piercing and ethereal, and squiggly rhythmic riffs.
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The right-hand theme had nobility and grandeur, but the left hand was a whirling wash of surging harmonies.
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If the voices in those harmonies can't live conflict-free, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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You know, sometimes with groups, the harmonies among them are so different, but they're all in the same register.
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But the energetic performances, directed and choreographed by Lorin Latarro, are something to savor, and so are the harmonies.
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Finally, the whole orchestra joined in, playing sputtering rhythms, tart harmonies and thematic fragments that coalesced into melodic lines.
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The music gives way to a solemn prayer to the spirit, with searching string lines and dense, halting harmonies.
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Miss Universe, her debut, draws on indie rock and soul, power chords and saxophones, and multi-tracked vocal harmonies.
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His touch is a bit heavy, but he knows just which harmonies to emphasize when grabbing for the heartstrings.
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Very large dog Jasper T. Jowls could shred, and equally large chicken Helen Henny laid down some buttery harmonies.
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Hugh Aston's "O baptista vates Christi" is a rhythmically buoyant work full of forward-driving energy and elegant harmonies.
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The sentences become paragraphs, and as for the colors — well, the harmonies are what the lines are built on.
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Everything would counter everything else, running parallels and harmonies, similar voices saying similar things but never quite the same.
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Like a symphony, Moonlight's cinematic themes, melodies, and harmonies keep humming in your mind long after the credits roll.
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Simultaneously faint and ornate, the album accrues light, feathery instruments to no end — strings, bilious keyboard swirl, breathy harmonies.
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There's some Eastern European off-beat club rhythms, some "hey-hey" dance chants, and proper, manufactured, early-'24s harmonies.
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Soon, she created a signature Instagram singing series where she showed herself singing harmonies in a grid of boxes.
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The song's original version features Lindsey Buckingham on lead vocals accompanied by background harmonies from Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie.
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"No One There," which features Casablancas on vocals, is a louche, gutsy cut, full of melancholic harmonies and snappy handclaps.
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The colors of the harmonies from voices and instruments mesh well, creating a smooth, well-organized calamity of bursting color.
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Lid is this exploration—instead of writing melodies and harmonies, we wrote destinations, and searched for the music between them.
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Despite its long duration, the song has become a fan favorite, thanks in part to its two-part vocal harmonies.
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Groups actually sing harmonies, and British pop stars use their own accents rather than defaulting to Americanisms much more commonly.
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Those four-part harmonies, with the horns and the rhythms sections that wouldn't overpower the vocals when I mixed it.
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That record (especially the track" Beautiful Mother") features otherworldly and impossible to describe harmonies that are especially awe-inducing live.
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Like Darger's protagonists, the Vivian Girls were, on the surface, almost angelic, with their three-part harmonies and pop sensibilities.
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Adele's (slightly sweary) Carpool Karaoke with James Corden — complete with awesome harmonies, tea spillages and drunken stories — is finally here.
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One of his favorite tools is drawing on the history of gospel music, using massive choirs to sing vibrant harmonies.
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In Warpaint, Lindberg sets a foundation of hypnotic bass grooves, and fleshes out the band's signature harmonies with backing vocals.
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" For an intense stretch of 30 seconds, singers wove in and out of each others' harmonies to just sing "n-----.
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Herb recycles the same verse but Uzi comes in going back and forth between proper rapping and his coveted harmonies.
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Igor and Paulo Jr. play another rhythm with its own gravitational pull, and Kisser's guitar harmonies dance through the air.
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They eventually called themselves the Wailers, and their sound fused American-style soul harmonies with the island's jumpy ska rhythms.
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A full chorus in the original version was reduced to a vocal quartet that chimed in with floating, crystalline harmonies.
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This beautifully modest piece unfolds with a melody in steady notes and tender, pungent harmonies, almost like an Asian chorale.
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The choral harmonies mix eerily with the drumming sound of rain against the corrugated plastic sheeting on the studio roof.
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Even the "bad" songs are actually pretty good: The harmonies are effective, the song structure is intact, and they're catchy.
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"She Remembers Everything" was written by Cash and the California-based songwriter Sam Phillips, who lends her voice to harmonies.
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It's about the texture of the harmonies, the rhythms, the quotations, the Stravinskian drive, the klezmer and Jewish melodic style.
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On the album, Ms. Fort draws elliptical harmonies around the clarinet sound of Gianluigi Trovesi, a distant and ephemeral player.
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Mr. Young is a founder of Minimalism, a genre of composition marked by repetition, gradual development and sometimes spare harmonies.
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A stretch will start out sounding like some jovial toccata, then break into fractured phrases, brutal rhythms and gnashing harmonies.
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He also layers his vocals into cascading, convoluted harmonies and brings in glimmers of lush string ensembles and subtle funk.
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This passage is from his childhood, and it's appropriately about his early appreciation for jazz music, harmonies and sound quality.
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As their pentatonic melodies and Western harmonies recapitulate the cultural conflict, their lyrics achieve the pith and mystery of haiku.
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Yet for all the gnashing harmonies and splintered phrases, the music is run through with hints of Kurt Weill cabaret.
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The pianists Jenny Lin and Adam Tendler explain why "Poetic and Religious Harmonies" is better underground than at Carnegie Hall.
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Muscular drumming and distorted, suspended harmonies offset the almost nonchalant lucidity of Mr. Endsley's trumpet and Ben Wendel's tenor saxophone.
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Multivocal harmonies were a staple of the Airplane, with Balin and Slick soaring over one another and Kantner weaving in.
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It needs time to build — and the song eventually blossoms into a choir of horns and drums and spectral harmonies.
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A quartet in silence, it is its own music, the connections and reactions between the dancers making its harmonies marvelous.
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The instruments sometimes cushion the vocal line with mystical, piercing harmonies, until emotions break loose and the music becomes fiendish.
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The songs are rough around the edges but still have pop flair thanks to jaunty guitar riffs and retro harmonies.
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Guitars buzz in minor chords over a choppy beat, while O'Riordan's voice — the demo included vocal harmonies — holds stoic regret.
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But the sounds of his native country are in there, too, particularly in the tilted minor mode of the harmonies.
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"Lean On" is the perfect summer jam, with slip & slide voices cut up between spiked-juice verses and pool-grotto harmonies.
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In the harmonies of a group devoted to evoking fellowship and good times, there is little, if any, room for introspection.
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Ultimately, Palladio played drums and bass, and enlisted the help of the Nashville-based duo Striking Matches to play the harmonies.
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Sprout's speaking voice is far lower than his singing voice, which he attributes to doing the high harmonies over Pollard's lead.
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But opera comes from this lineage that is characteristically complex in terms of the rhythms, melodies, or harmonies of the piece.
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In a relaxed and easygoing way, they offer up expansive playful harmonies and improvised adlibs as H.E.R floats over the top.
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See even the multitracked harmonies of Sweet Heart Sweet Light's "Headin' for the Top Now" for evidence of such spiritual influence.
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The exhibition marks the first time that all four of Jean Tinguely's Méta-Harmonies sculptures (1978–85) have been exhibited together.
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Fuzzed out guitar fills pierce Lennon's sleepy intro, before he gets some help from his bandmates with doo wop-y harmonies.
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Along similar lines, "Peaceful Morning" juxtaposes a banjo and acoustic bass with a raft of vocal harmonies evocative of Vampire Weekend.
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Surging momentum and full-blossom harmonies coexist happily in this group, which vests Mr. Pope's compositions with a hard-bitten beauty.
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But McBride makes sure everything coheres, thanks to hip-huggingly tight swing rhythms and generous coats of grease on the harmonies.
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Elaborate yet insistently skeletal tracks let her vocals tease, swoop, push back against pressure, blossom into harmonies and bask in satisfaction.
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Most people were too busy making ends meet, seeking to secure creature comforts and social harmonies where and when they could.
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But I was more struck by the unusual clarity of the textures, the careful voicing of chords to highlight pungent harmonies.
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Mr. Pitt's rich, rangy voice became the group's centerpiece, sometimes soaring to a falsetto over the deeper harmonies of the others.
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The group's 2013 breakout, "Cold Spring Fault Less Youth," was filled with gorgeous dollops of airy harmonies and jittery minimalist bass.
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But the slight coolness and clarity of the playing also revealed Mahler's intricate contrapuntal writing, the boldness of his chromatic harmonies.
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But on "Baby Forgive Me," soulful keyboard harmonies give her extra room to breathe, and her voice becomes feathery and delicate.
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"Monticello Ave" uses piano the way the Native Tongues might have, then slaps New Jack Swing-inspired vocal harmonies atop it.
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At first, reflective passages full of poignant melodic turns and blues-tinged, plushly orchestrated harmonies alternate with vibrantly jazzy, fidgety episodes.
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I liked the way the viola and recorders mingled so closely: one moment prolonging tart harmonies, the next trading perky sputterings.
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He has said he was drawn to the harmonies of the Beatles early on, and started to play drums at 16.
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If you know the originals, Rieti's alterations only add to this work's strangeness: Rhythms are heightened, harmonies altered, orchestration greatly intensified.
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The characters are almost always singing together in non-traditional harmonies, so I have to be completely solid on my part.
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If you can get past the cringe of their "happy holidays" greetings and rather awkward dancing, enjoy chomping on those harmonies.
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Mr. Lawrance's choreography catches the drama in the score, even finding, within the harmonies, pulses that the music seems to lack.
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The former frontman of Del Fuegos, he specializes in folk-flavored rock whose complex harmonies are just as pleasing to parents.
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It's an alternate version of her happy ending (one that isn't "toxic"), evoking Mariah Carey's whistle tones and Brandy's layered harmonies.
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The first songs I learned were hymns, stripped down and chock-full of harmonies, gospel became the soundtrack to my childhood.
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Here to demonstrate that fact with plenty of enthusiasm and some flawless harmonies are Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and the Jonas Brothers.
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The geometry of these works reveals the influence of Islamic art and architecture, with its foundations in pattern, symmetry, and design harmonies.
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The five-member girl group is typical of South Korean girl groups — known for their chirpy, bubble-gum harmonies and sexy choreography.
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This track is only a teaser; if you like haunting vocal harmonies sung from the female point of view, don't miss them.
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Phil Collen, Steve Clark, and Rick Savage, credited collectively as "The Bankrupt Brothers," stacked harmonies and gang shouts around Elliott's lead vocals.
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Four women in black aprons chant braiding instructions in haunting four-part harmonies, which punctuate a sonic score by Roberto Carlos Lange.
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In the clip, Benjamin and Cara sing perfect harmonies as they sit side-by-side inside a house while rain pours outside.
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These harmonies manifest themselves as different forms of matter and energy in our Universe: stars and galaxies are all coming from vibrations.
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What I've found so far on a musical level is new melodies, new harmonies, new ways to approach rhythm, melody, and improvisation.
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Like many songs of the genre, Dion's music consists of laid-back tempos, rich harmonies, and a spirit of unity and love.
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It's a single lifted from their current LP Pure Mood which boasts monster riffs and boy-girl harmonies warm enough to cuddle.
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We're very likeminded—they're an extreme metal band, but they have the same taste when it comes to dark harmonies and atmospheres.
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As Dee Dee her melancholia was awash with reverbed guitars, gauzy as dawn eking through pale blinds, plus plush girl group harmonies.
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Keys, who is consistently captivating, sauntered on with flawless harmonies, and for just a moment or two, these Grammys felt utterly essential.
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Hear how loose and fungible everything is on "Tale of Bricks:" the horns' harmonies, the rhythmic feel, at times even the tempo.
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On "King," Belly's second album, each song unfolds at its own pace, with Ms. Donelly's high-pitched harmonies always in the lead.
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The harmonies are labyrinthine, the melodies uplifting, the production both chameleonic and playful — endless possibility with the musicianship to back it up.
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So that was the blend that came out of the hell house of the Wilsons' childhood: choirboy harmonies and rock 'n' roll.
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Four of these band members also function as storytellers, jumping into songs with harmonies that emphasize the narrative's many gender identity conflicts.
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Before she played bass and was concerned with harmonies, so that whole aspect was removed, so he had her focused on singing.
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He practically croons "Under Cover of Darkness," the first song the band employed harmonies for, treating every chorus like a love song.
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Pick an uplifting, major chord progression, throw in some harmonies and with the added religious connotations, and a basic song becomes transcendent.
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It was characterized by improvisation jams, strange imagery, experimentation, inconsistent rhythms, discordant harmonies, abrupt changes in timbre, and general defiance of convention.
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The opening track "Prelude - Island of Peace" is a collage of vocal harmonies, keys, and sweeping synths, all superimposed over tape hiss.
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We went because the Beatles and the Hollies were doing all of these fantastic harmonies and we knew we could do that.
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As new harmonies (and characters) appear, Mr. Pinto's adaptation of Paine's writing becomes a bit less arch, and all the more affecting.
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Here and there, the wild sounds calmed into stretches of floating harmonies, and groups of singers hissed the words in spoken unison.
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They leaned in for gentle, perfectly blended harmonies from their debut album, "See You Around"; they fingerpicked and fiddled in lapidary counterpoint.
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Even during stretches of hazy colorings and harmonies, Mr. Nezét-Séguin brought out pungent dissonances and wayward inner voices with startling freshness.
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The album's first single, "The Gate," mixes ethereal harmonies with a nod to some kind of vaporwave-by-way-of-Tolkien aesthetic.
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Instead, these songs — many rooted in the sounds of the 1950s — succeed because of their utter certainty, stacked with indestructibly saccharine harmonies.
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Mr. Greilsammer began with the first movement of the Janacek suite, which emerged in hazy rolled harmonies and nervously jabbing repeated notes.
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The second viola does what violas normally do in music of the Classical period, filling out harmonies and juicing up the texture.
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When the choir recorded the new arrangement, it reacquired "bells and whistles," Ms. Gibson's shorthand for more complicated rhythms and additional harmonies.
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He rarely plays in full chords, preferring to trace out little houndstooth patters or to use curt, two- and three-note harmonies.
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"I came into the world singing, being color sensitive to sound, and understanding music and harmonies before I could talk," she says.
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In much of Frey's music, achingly Romantic harmonies drift to and fro, as if a Mahler Adagio were suspended in zero gravity.
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Bearing the same title as another ecstatic classic, this track twists Hundred Waters vocalist Nicole Miglis' weightless harmonies into amniotic dancefloor filler.
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"Antlers," the first track taken from the album, features strings, back up harmonies, and the rich bittersweet vocals of main songwriter Robert Scott.
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CHRIS: We had to do it quick, we only had a few minutes left when we were doing the harmonies on the overdub.
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COLIN: We were doing a 10 'til 20173 and we got everyone around the mic to try and build up the vocal harmonies.
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Harmonies create melting colors, while consistent sounds, like the beat of a drum, create pulsating visuals that appear and disappear throughout the song.
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The group complicates the harmonies and fills the interstices of the songs with improvisation, often with Mr. McCaslin's saxophone chasing Mr. Bowie's voice.
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He can really move paint around, and his colors attain complex harmonies even as you may crave sunglasses to mitigate their screeching chromas.
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Most kinds of music, from pop and rock to jazz and classical, rely on the repetition of melodies, harmonies and so on. Why?
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During her rehearsal, "I'm just singing, but looking back and seeing Keith and Vince both singing harmonies to lyrics I've written," she said.
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It was a deeper sensation, a vibration of the sixth sense, a perturbation of internal harmonies that indicated the presence of a tuber.
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The harmonies throughout remind me of John Doe and Exene's not-quite-right, but ultimately wildly effective way of paralleling the human voice.
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Nothing could be greater than what I was hearing at that very moment as the harmonies burrowed themselves into my mind and adolescence.
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Instead, that heady brew of folk, doom, prog, chamber music, medieval vocal harmonies, and ritual atmosphere continues to float above this mortal plane.
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Editor's Note: The headline has been changed to reflect more specific terminology around African slave spirituals and choral harmonies, which inspired this collection.
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Before a recent performance of "Evening — 1910" was through, I knew I would want to hear its music again: those strings, those harmonies.
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Electronic musicians have proven that the beautiful harmonies of acoustics are no less natural to the human soul when rendered synthetically and technologically.
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His homemade video, posted to YouTube in 2011, features a brisk pop melody and beat, with doo-doos sung like Beach Boys harmonies.
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By the time he turned sixteen, he had become a student of Olivier Messiaen, the French composer known for his radiantly complex harmonies.
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Bonnie Brown, one of three siblings whose smooth harmonies as the Browns influenced generations of singers, died on Saturday in Little Rock, Ark.
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Long sustained harmonies that crescendo and subside bring the piece to end, as the singers finally speak the texts softly and fade out.
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Out of them pours music sounding like part of a rock opera, filling the gallery with physically palpable sound and transporting symphonic harmonies.
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The visual for "4 Leaf Clover," released today, is reminiscent of Grease's sock hop era, which matches the retro harmonies behind Lenae's vocals.
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The music, by the Texas ambient outfit This Will Destroy You, made me slow down and listen for small shifts and surprise harmonies.
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Her debut album, "No Saint," is set for March 15, and it surrounds her most bitter tidings with gleaming guitars and bright harmonies.
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Echoes of Baroque-style chorales were intricately folded into the opening of the final movement, with tonal harmonies that splinter and turn vaporous.
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Their shared pieces orchestrated the kamancheh's bite, and its echoes of ancient melodies, with harmonies and arrangements that extend and stoke the drama.
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If his harmonies had been as conflict-seeking as his rhythms, he might be considered the most dissonant composer of the Romantic era.
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The developing harmonies of the all-female septet, "Why We Dance: Community," with which it concluded Tuesday evening, to traditional music, were ravishing.
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It was a voyage through warped-glass apparitions, spiky rhythmic terrain and skyscraping three-part horn harmonies that sometimes tumbled into writhing disarray.
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Lying insensible in the hospital, Hwang imagines a big, brash, classic American-style musical, replete with high-kicking chorus lines and bright harmonies.
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In the final numbers, an irrepressible optimism came through, beginning with Ms. Reagon's "Building Brooklyn," alive with bluesy harmonies and a sticky groove.
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Even non-puzzle conversations sometimes took on the best qualities of the solving experience — oblique, compelling, full of understated humor and unexpected harmonies.
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About two minutes into the subdued first song, the violin lifts a wistful melody backed by quizzical, hazy harmonies in the other strings.
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With endlessly bright combinations of harmonies, synths and straightforward refrains designed for singalongs, their music is perfect for the suddenly (finally) springlike weather.
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Mr. Stevens plays the guitar with tight clutch, improvising in truncated melodies and tense, frequently beautiful harmonies that always tilt toward a payoff.
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Now 70, he can stir up a whirlwind of speed and agility, breezing through tricky meters, harmonies and beats from all over Brazil.
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The most powerful comes at a local village festival, where women gathered at a bonfire weave intricate harmonies around a simple Latin lyric.
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The interplay, a duet with sweet and eccentric harmonies, is fascinating to observe, even as it undermines the overall structure of the narrative.
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It is rich in unstable, digressive harmonies—one recurring progression sets F major against C-sharp minor—and clouds of whole-tone tonality.
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Everyone was into really well-sung, polished 80s pop inspired stuff like The Smiths or Fleetwood Mac with moderate tempos and vocal harmonies.
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Or imagine his harmonies as a 103-D object, with four or six or eight sides depending, the light hitting each chord differently.
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Or imagine his harmonies as a 103-D object, with four or six or eight sides depending, the light hitting each chord differently.
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The music is so spiked with dissonance, clusters and wayward chords that it seems boldly modernist, even when the harmonies are tonally anchored.
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Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies.
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There's something about her vocal performance here that reflects that idea — it's her voice alone, no harmonies or guide vocals, creating a haunting sound.
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That surprise is itself is derailed by distorted screams and, at the song's end, ear-splitting noise (which is wreathed with Bonito's heavenly harmonies).
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Her dad played ukulele, dobro and banjo, sisters Carrie and Lori served up some harmonies, and her uncle Tom plays guitar, bass and harmonica.
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Hazy falsettos and warm guitar scribbles spill forth, as Borcherdt's sighed phrasing rises to meet harmonies from his wife and collaborator Anna Edwards-Borcherdt.
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In total, The Temptations, with their signature dance moves and unmistakable harmonies, scored 37 top 40 hits and 14 No. 1 R&B singles.
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The sister R&B duo known for their stunning vocal harmonies became YouTube sensations before signing with Beyoncé's management company, Parkwood Entertainment in 2013.
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It's a slow trudge through her darker impulses, layering abstract field recordings, distant synth work, and foreboding harmonies under a thick film of reverb.
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Their raggedy harmonies on songs like "Where Do You Run To" and "Everything Goes Wrong" evoked a crude sketch of a 60s girl group.
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Having found said band's disquieting harmonies and shifting arrangements arch and self-involved even when I liked them anyway, I say no big deal.
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Songs like "Wings", "Shout Out To My Ex", "Black Magic", "Touch" and "Salute" had mammoth choruses, silky harmonies and lyrics about love and empowerment.
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The simplest of Mr. Johnston's quartets incorporate folk music set in clear harmonies that gain a rosy-cheeked innocence from the meticulously tuned intervals.
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The song still has his trademark love of big bass, but it's more about the vocals, with all their yearning and sometimes menacing harmonies.
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The rhythm is identical, and other elements were very similar, the way they brought in the harmonies and brought in the Daddy Shark voice.
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Watson heard their harmonies, honed since childhood by their parents and their equally musical brother and sister, and he thought of the Staple Singers.
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"Good Grief" refigures the band through ecstatic overkill — the harmonies that were once the group's anchor are set upon by all manner of production.
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The band has been honing a gripping sound that gathers disparate Southern modes—Americana harmonies, gospel choirs, chain-gang chants—into rousing protest punk.
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One brief vocal quartet was unlike anything I've heard, its layers and harmonies apparently suspending time; a solo by Mr. Vicenti was poetically reflective.
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In ravishing music, thick with shimmering orchestral harmonies, calmly oscillating figures and long, expansive vocal phrases, she sings of an ecstatic vision of Christ.
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As the notes rippled out from under Mr. Stritch's fingertips, lush harmonies flashed by like scenery glimpsed from the windows of a bullet train.
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She's a star—totally gifted when it comes to song construction and harmonies, but with this real down-to-earth thing going on too.
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The live band helped on "Stir Fry," with Quavo embracing his role as the frontman and Takeoff pitching in some honest-to-God harmonies.
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It's the album's centerpiece, where the individual talents of all five members fuse in a cocktail of menacing guitar licks and white-knuckled harmonies.
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While studying at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal School of Arts and Crafts) in Dresden, Dix absorbed the explosive harmonies produced by Vincent Van Gogh.
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I'm always thinking of harmonies and I think one of the reasons why was because of all this time I spent singing in choruses.
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The papery, lilting vocal harmonies float and weave like ghosts, beckoning you closer, closer, and closer still, until you're fully enraptured by their spell.
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"He came to us playing piano by listening to other musicians and picking up on the melodies and the harmonies by ear," Young says.
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This music traces the contours of her voice, her swoops and screams and moments of chatter, plus her many overlapping harmonies and ad-libs.
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Texts (in Ukrainian, English and French) were delivered in shouts, hisses and yelps, with the voices sometimes coming together in exquisitely vocalized folk harmonies.
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It's his wife Morgane whose harmonies put the song over the top, weaving in and out, completing Chris's backwards emotional certainty as she goes.
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Just below the surface, the music sizzles with modernist harmonies, fractured phrases, gaggles of counterpoint and lyrical strands that keep breaking into skittish bits.
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The point was underlined by the sensuality of Prince's music: his seductive singing, his spine-tingling harmonies, his brittle funk, and his soaring refrains.
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For all that, no clear story emerged from either the music, which ranged from ancient-sounding harmonies to siren-like squeals, or the film.
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The EP slips between acoustic guitar strumming toothache-sweet harmonies; listening to it now, she really does sound like the child she was then.
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"Memory Won't Let Me" feigns optimism with its jaunty guitar and sweet harmonies, but they're merely sugarcoating lyrics about being unable to move on.
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J.C. "I feel it all the time/There's trouble on my mind once again," sing the Staves, three sisters who share folky, glowing harmonies.
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Around 42:14, there's a contentious, percussive, carnivalesque push and at the end, just when it seems cacophony might prevail, glassy, soothing harmonies arrive.
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" An ultraslow ballad about closeness and intimacy, "Braid," concludes with Mr. Hadreas's voice braided into close harmonies, singing, "Every harm is lovingly washed away.
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With a lapidary touch, Mr. Jarrett ranges from Romantic pastiche to Coplandesque major harmonies to runs of boisterous swing, often in one free improvisation.
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Tellingly, the most famous section, "Funérailles," is also the closest "Harmonies" gets to the pyrotechnic showiness that has made Liszt a favorite for encores.
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"In Honor of NASA and the Planetary Soloists," for string quartet and oboe, featured violins and viola engaged in gently dissonant, softly sinking harmonies.
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Amongst the noise, a teenager quietly made "Royals" available for free online, its gleaming vocal harmonies strung together with a defiantly, arrogantly simple beat.
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An improviser of rumbling intensity and generous restraint, Satoko Fujii sometimes plays the piano in dense, clustered runs or heavily packed, dark-hued harmonies.
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Jazz Mr. Stevens plays the guitar with tight clutch, improvising in truncated melodies and tense, frequently beautiful harmonies that always tilt toward a payoff.
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We started learning all the T&S songs we could, spending hours working out harmonies, trying to sound both more and less like them.
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This, the first movement, is a dizzying melting pot of folklike rhythms, droning tunes and pungent modernist harmonies, spiked with bursts of wailing jazz.
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Britten's eerie, modernist harmonies are a surprisingly perfect fit for Shakespeare's language; both the words and the music estrange the other from our ears.
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But this is the thing about harmonies: None of the notes replace any of the others; instead, they build on the differences between them.
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You won't find any R&B-inspired beats on this album, which leans heavily on fiddle harmonies and acoustic guitars (with an occasional electric version).
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From "maybe we can hold hands in the park in the sunshine" to the pitched-up harmonies on the chorus, this is grime's Hallmark moment.
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Nils Martin Larsen's synthetic backdrop worked more clearly in tandem Morten Myklebust's introspective, meandering vocals and its harmonies snuck to the front of the mix.
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Google used machine learning to analyze the harmonies of more than 300 Bach compositions, replicating the patterns it found to fit the user's suggested melody.
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For over a decade now the songwriter and producer has been making brittle and brilliant pop songs, based around heavenward harmonies and kaleidoscopic synth lines.
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The harmonies between Ms. Lotz and Ms. Collins were piercing and soothing, and Mr. Walsh gave the music, especially "Tommy" and "Sooner," a visceral thrust.
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Even at his most poppy and melodic, Thomas's music had always relied on distortion, riffs, and harmonies, but playing alone stripped him of all that.
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In 2014, the trio released "No Fools, No Fun," a debut flavored by folksy, fingerpicked guitar, close harmonies and, of course, Jones's signature silky coo.
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A leading composer and pianist in jazz since the 1970s, Brackeen has a piano style based in neatly angled patterns and harmonies, and darting melodicism.
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"We just loved the foundation of country music, the steel guitar, four-part harmonies, organic instruments, and the storytelling in our song writing," Caillat says.
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There's an unexpected uplifting quality to the harmonies, their undulating post-rock trills undercut by the combined harshness of the tortured vocals and propulsive percussion.
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Depressive and uncompromising, its glorious, surging harmonies strangled by layers of distortion, "Blood Tempest" offers a threatening glimpse at the shape of USBM to come.
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Combining sparse arrangements, multi-layered harmonies, and a heavy dose of percussion, It's a refinement of Alopecia's aesthetics and themes into something softer and gentler.
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Its buoyant melodies, breezy harmonies and airy orchestral strings are tethered by lively guitar picking and the heft of the history in the musicians' hands.
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The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC were two of the most successful male vocal groups of the 1990s, appealing to teen audiences with carefully constructed harmonies.
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We'd spend hours working within an 8-bar loop and actually embrace the repetition as a way to pull out unique sounds, layers and harmonies.
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It's a typically fuzzy, guitar-led pop jam with dreamy harmonies and a Pity Sex-style bassline, all joined up by Crutchfield's irresistibly earnest vocal.
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"Ready for You" is a great example of their sound as a whole; it's well-composed, tight, and full of vocal harmonies and snappy percussion.
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He's occasionally used big arrangements—often favoring spiraling brass sections and towering harmonies—but he does so in a way that still feels somehow small.
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He bought the Bee Gees' first album because of the harmonies, Ms. Etchingham said, and Handel's "Messiah" when he learned of the Brook Street connection.
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"Carrion-Miles," after craggy, labored movements, ends on a note of shaky consonance, with harmonies reminiscent of the Renaissance, creating a sense of incantatory wonder.
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The gleaming, finely balanced harmonies drew a sizable crowd away from the T-shirt vendors and stalls selling Statue of Liberty hats and selfie sticks.
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Is it the orchestration, with the harmonies clumped together in the middle of the range and bare octaves at the extremes of treble and bass?
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"Nervous Mary" has all the loping, spacey harmonies and sludgy feedback of the band's classic catalogue, still beloved by reformed nihilists of a certain age.
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Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies.
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Listen closely and you'll hear that the brasses have an unusually, if still subtly, prominent place in the harmonies, giving the piece a golden glow.
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At times, the harmonies brush against traditional tonality: a D-minor triad on a guitar here, an E-flat-major triad in the voices there.
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In class, he told her to focus on the piano, molding the songs' harmonies into her fingers and improvising new melodies on top of them.
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As ever their harmonies are goosebump-inducing, the bass provides the funked up backbone, and Emily and Theresa's interlocking guitars dance together in delicious synchronicity.
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The third track from the album, "Baby," is another gentle step into the unknown, its gospel harmonies sidling up to that country slide guitar again.
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Producer John Agnello has sharpened the tone, made the vocal harmonies more present, and allowed Kyle's drums to lose some bombast and therefore drive harder.
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Over the past few years, he's built a strong base of listeners with an impressive range of bellowing harmonies and more conventional styles of flowing.
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He mines the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth for close harmonies, undergirding their singing with a wan wash of strings, the barest touch of propulsion.
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The pleasurable payoff is in the music, harking back to the 1980s era of Michael Jackson's vocal harmonies and Prince's synthesizers, all sweet, glassy smoothness.
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But he also sprinkles in unexpected accents — including swooning touches of folk-like string harmonies — that keep the soundscape as nimble as Ms. Artman's text.
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In live shows, Balla and Kempf, who are the band's co-lead singers, pogo across each other, stacking twisted, sugar-coated harmonies on their songs.
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Listening to all those textures and harmonies crushed against each other and compressed into a studio mix, you thought, This would be immeasurably cool live.
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While there is great beauty in the chiaroscuro interplay between his expressionistic dissonances and Renaissance-style harmonies, his works never build toward resolution or transfiguration.
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A doom doo-wop band should be an impossibility: Doom is a plodding, earthbound style of metal while doo-wop harmonies are lighter than air.
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Since 27555 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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Since 2015 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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Ms. Saariaho has always been adept at weaving together acoustic and electronic sounds, and here she adds tastes of medieval harmonies and North African rhythms.
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In lighter scenes, Dvorak evokes Polish music with lilting, mazurka-infused choral music; he draws upon Slavic modal harmonies to suggest Russian idioms and character.
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Maggie Roche, the songwriter whose serene alto anchored the close harmonies of the Roches, her trio with her sisters, Terre and Suzzy, died on Saturday.
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"Never Look Away" traffics in all kinds of thorny, ambiguous material: It's about family secrets, psychological misdirection, the sometimes uncanny harmonies between artifice and reality.
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It's only 74 seconds long, a gentle a capella track surrounded by whispy, swirling harmonies, speaking to an unnamed character about her child and Jesus.
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With involute orchestration and levitative harmonies weaving like gothic flying buttresses, Grizzly Bear can risk indulging in ornamental complexity that can snuff the emotion out.
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Backed only by his guitar and the ghostly pure harmonies of Kay Berkel he played a short set at Rough Trade and we spoke after.
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The harmonies are tight and there's a bunch of riffs and there's a Rhodes piano and why have I only just heard of this guy?
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Boshra is all business on stage left as she shells out quirky harmonies and a bassline (which is mixed too low on the album, unfortunately).
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Closing things out with a curveball, "The Mascara Snake" is a sharp, almost defensively reserved synthpop instrumental, rich in synth harmonies and distinctive arrangements of timbre.
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Their trademark harmonies, which helped define a genre half a century ago, serve to enhance these contemporary tracks, illustrating once again that the "Tempts" are timeless.
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"There was one night that we put the kids to bed and we needed to work on some harmonies on 'Baby It's Cold Outside,'" Watson recalls.
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One thing we learned in 20th century physics is that we can think about our Universe like an orchestra, and all these vibrations create different harmonies.
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The drapes are rebellious and wear leather and ride motorbikes, and the squares are snarky do-gooders who sing in harmonies and never stay out late.
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The Third Symphony is a bigger, brasher work: a brooding brass opening smacks of Wagner, then begins shifting between Dvořákian hoedowns and hazy whole-tone harmonies.
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So they used interlocking instrumental lines, shifting time signatures, and close harmonies to construct songs that seemed to occupy some phantom limb of music's evolutionary tree.
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Renowned for their otherworldly vocal harmonies and an instrumental style that was more soulful than showy, the Stanleys were the most traditional-sounding of the three.
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With the exception of backing vocals and harmonies, the album was recorded in live takes, after the band rehearsed in the studio for a few weeks.
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The New York-based composer/vocalist's past records have favored weightlessness, exploring the emergent rhythms and harmonies inherent to her vocal looping process in zero-g.
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The video below is shaky and the harmonies are off when Boyd and Knowles sing together, but it's all sort of beautiful in its own way.
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Sometimes we have to remember to stay in our lane of Lady Antebellum does: It's about the songs, it's about the vocal harmonies and the vocals.
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During interviews they've clearly accepted their roles as cultural ambassadors, often accidentally speaking in unison, while their live shows capture their powerful harmonies and subversive lyrics.
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The Elements intone chantlike harmonies, and in the most inspired moments, the male quartet performs complex, pungent passages, with crisscrossing strands of dense yet lucid counterpoint.
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It not only makes for an incongruous stage picture, but it often creates an unbalanced sound, with emphatic backing harmonies drowning out Wilson's main vocal lines.
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In "Hey-nyo," a lengthy ensemble number that was the evening's centerpiece, Ms. Monk charted numerous routes between clashing semitones, unsettling microtonal swoops and gentler harmonies.
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Cycling minimalism, paint-splattered harmonies and subtly accruing percussion — it's all part of the Claudia Quintet's abstruse formula, devised by the drummer and composer John Hollenbeck.
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Ben Gibbard: I think that's one of the beauties of what Teenage Fanclub does—they construct these really meticulous, intricate harmonies, but they sound so simple.
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The student chorus, arranged in a circle around the periphery, sang a steady drone, getting louder and softer, cutting across the harmonies, creating strange new chords.
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The women who wove these fabrics are the exhibition's unsung heroes, along with the courtesan's attendants, who combined the patterns with a flair for unexpected harmonies.
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He sings and plays a studio-full of instruments, and he can't resist showing off his endless layerings, his dense harmonies, his slyly elaborate key changes.
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The young Debussy's penchant for unorthodox harmonies was given an unexpected shock stimulant when he encountered a Javanese gamelan at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889.
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It is filled with spare melodies and rich, intricate three-part harmonies, reminiscent at times of 1970s folk music but very much of the Pacific Northwest.
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With cleareyed vocals, drone harmonies and string-section glissandos, "Foreign Car" carries an old pop metaphor — "wanna drive you" — into realms of weightlessness, experimentation and incantation.
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The lineup includes the Lone Bellow, an Americana group from Nashville by way of Brooklyn, known for close-knit, three-part harmonies and emotionally invigorating performances.
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"I don't even know I'm in a Grateful Dead tribute band until we start singing the three-part harmonies of 'Uncle John's Band,'" said Mr. Benevento.
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In this score, Talma, who died in 1996, deftly combines spiky 12-tone writing with stretches of radiant violin lines that float atop sonorous piano harmonies.
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The strings continue their unspooling, repeating motif as the harmonies transform, sometimes taking on a touch of tang, sometimes shadowed by a dark cloud of dissonance.
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But beyond the surface discord are clear harmonies: a love of costumes and glamour, a flair for the sensational and dramatic, an allergy to humdrum reality.
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Through 26 hours of instruction, you'll learn everything from basic concepts of synthesis and MIDI to organizing pitches and rhythms to make dynamic melodies and harmonies.
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Bits of dissonance, piercing overtones and gently jarring electronic sounds spike the undulant harmonies, but so subtly that the overall aural impression is of beguiling consonance.
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The vocalist and pianist Eliane Elias upholds one of those: romantic Brazilian jazz, blending the rhythms and harmonies of samba, straight-ahead jazz and smoother fare.
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Mr. Tyner's playing on this track is disciplined and neatly contained, but you can easily spot the signature shadings of his harmonies and his trilling ostinatos.
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" Then, as details emerge about past conflicts and current letdowns, synthesizers join the chords and the sisters add harmonies to conclude, "I can't pretend any more.
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Here, the choral refrains and orchestra layers built into piercing harmonies, like clusters out of Ives or Varèse, yet driven by Ms. Wolfe's Minimalism-influenced rhythms.
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It's also less neat and less pop; this codes as an experimental dance album, with the squeaky hooks and harmonies swallowed by the relentless jaggedy squelch.
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Cruz's drive to be innovative permeates his art — it is also apparent in his practice of creating electronic music from different modules that deconstruct classical harmonies.
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Sha Na Na found fame resurrecting 1950s rock 'n' roll with a retro style of singing and stage choreography that mixed tight harmonies with dashes of comedy.
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"Do It Now" finds McCartney returning to the string-laden baroque 'n' roll elegance he's mined so successfully, with backing harmonies that would make Brian Wilson envious.
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Wrekmeister Harmonies' new album, The Alone Rush, reached a place in me that I generally leave untended for fear of what I'll find lurking in its shadows.
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Impressed by the fullness of the Beach Boys' music, with its eclectic rhythms, sounds and harmonies, Paul became determined to produce a sonic tapestry of his own.
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The recently announced Oculus earbuds show their dedication to full immersion, and the app formerly known as H__r experiments with acoustic filtration, turning background noise into harmonies.
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Rheia harnesses the individual powers of post-hardcore, crust, black metal, spellbinding vocal harmonies, and raw emotional catharsis and spins them into an incredibly cohesive, compelling whole.
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Love: There's a box set of Pet Sounds with an album of just the vocals, so you can listen to just the harmonies and it's just amazing.
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The Jabras do a good job of distributing the jangling acoustic guitars, banjos, silky lead vocals, and harmonies on "Wonder Woman" between the left and right channels.
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Julien Baker's original version of "Good News," recorded for her gracefully devastating 2015 LP Sprained Ankle, was a forceful drone of harmonies and two-string guitar chords.
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The arrangements are pretty much the same here too—piano chords, a little acoustic guitar, sweet two-part harmonies—though everything is warmer and smoother than before.
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Created for German manufacturing company Wittenstein by Milan-based creative, production and design studio abstract:groove, Mechatronic Harmonies is as entrancing a data visualization as you've ever seen.
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"Bobby" is a gentle standout, its dual harmonies upfront and banjo-picks buried beneath; "Proud" is jauntier with its whistle-along melodies and every bit as country.
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Critics have heard the tenuousness of the melodies, and the close harmonies, and they hear discord, darkness and worry—the bruise-like qualities that the cover explores.
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Its main function is to sweep you up out of your thoughts on a cloud of alchemized harmonies, not smack you with a hard dose of realism.
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The choir cuts through the soft digital hum of the track, filling in for the horns and harmonies that blur into each other throughout 22, A Million.
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In "Ulysses," when the chorus comments on the gods' decision to forgive the long-suffering hero the tempo slowed to a majestic crawl, with eerie harmonies foregrounded.
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But it would completely overwhelm "Svadba-Wedding," Ana Sokolovic's intimate a cappella work for six women, whose harmonies are only occasionally punctuated by glockenspiel or rain stick.
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In the manner of Ligeti, sustained, mostly subdued chords kept going out of focus, with pitches slipping into piercing clusters, then slipping back into shimmering tonal harmonies.
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Although "Brahms-Haydn" shows the company exuberantly in top form, Ms. Tharp's choreography seems an object lesson in excess after the classical harmonies of Ratmansky and Ashton.
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Their exchange of pleasantries, with repeated expressions of "enchanted," becomes a complex ensemble in which sustained vocal lines mingle in clashing harmonies over lurching, jerky orchestra chords.
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The trio's NPR Tiny Desk Concert, uploaded this morning, is everything that you might expect: close three-part harmonies, delicate acoustics, and wholesome (but poorly told) jokes.
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Atonal music was pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian composer who in the early 1900s looked to move away from traditional music that relied on conventional harmonies.
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Vocal harmonies came naturally, and all three women were immediately struck by the easy chemistry among them: a sense of musical problem-solving rather than dueling egos.
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Though Mr. Frankel nods to the period with close harmonies and doo-wop riffs, he has too much integrity as a composer to rely on mere pastiche.
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The track begins as a gentle drone with feedback woven in, offers a spoke-sung verse that suddenly sprouts harmonies and wanders off to an unsteady beat.
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"Choir of the Mind," her first solo album since 2006, is a nuanced meditation on loss and injustice, and a stunning showcase for Ms. Haines's vocal harmonies.
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Layers of buzzing notes bring out the tensions of those harmonies; a brief punk surge doesn't arrive until more than a minute later, and it doesn't last.
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The middle of the three brothers, Jonas was known for his harmonies, his eyebrows, and, of course, as the love interest in Camp Rock alongside Demi Lovato.
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"It's something where I want to capture obviously the melodies, the harmonies — the really beautiful, evocative musical things that he did," he said of Mr. Badalamenti's score.
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Instead, soft cloth, especially the kind that's also soft on the planet, reminds us with its blissful, textural harmonies that comfort zones are not always for cowards.
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For most of the opening performance on Tuesday, I found myself faulting Mr. Domingo's judgment: The music is an unappealing mix of syrupy textures and tart harmonies.
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Yolanda Adams, Fantasia Barrino and Andra Day produced heaven-sent harmonies in the name of Aretha Franklin in one of the top music moments of the night.
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"i love adding more harmonies than anyone will ever notice or hear that no one ever asked for or needed" Trust me, Ariana, your fans have noticed.
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The gesture injected a hint of Middle Eastern flavor into the music, momentarily troubling the early-Baroque harmonies in a way that was both beautiful and alienating.
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" The outlier was "Here We Go," a song filled with Boyz II Men inspired harmonies, a New Jack Swing rhythm, and declarations of *NSYNC having "the flow.
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But here he states his own themes and commands his own space, letting the light of his major harmonies vie with the darkness of his blues. G.R.
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Their initial goal was to create something that somehow contained the heartbreaking pop harmonies of the Shangri-Las and the remorseless noise of industrial boffins Einstürzende Neubauten.
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Most numbers are slowed down and set to harmonies that morph from quiet lyricism to frayed dissonances, with Mr. Sorey's subtle percussion work adding a nervous sheen.
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The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.
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Bunton, Halliwell, and Brown's airy vocals and tight harmonies feel like a hug from an old friend on the track, which they allegedly co-wrote alongside Eliot Kennedy.
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The familiar elements remain: beats that could fit into a Soundcloud jam, Motown-inspired harmonies, warm gospel organs, funk basslines, hip hop as interpreted by Texas, and jazz.
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The increasingly complex rhythms and added melodic guitar work cradled Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard's dueling vocals to create cutting harmonies amidst a flurry of skillfully controlled discord.
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With the help of artificial intelligence, the interactive Doodle allows users to generate harmonies for any melody they input in the style of the famous 18th century composer.
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Today's episode brings a performance from the Quebe Sisters, a Texas-based group of sisters who play "Texas fiddle music," complete with swing rhythms and three-part harmonies.
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As the song builds, Wolfe and Laessig add layers of harmonies that float above and behind the melody, filling out the song into a lush and rich standout.
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I listened to the 2019 remix of Abbey Road, and the Solo Pros made for a lively, dynamic listen with excellent instrument placement and separation for vocal harmonies.
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The work is full of stark color contrasts and instances of tone painting, with the instrumental ensemble sometime isolating the soprano's voice, sometimes engulfing it in dense harmonies.
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Out today, the second single "Mirror Held to the Flower" is a slower, yet languorous, pop jam filled with luxurious synth layers, racy basslines and warmhearted vocal harmonies.
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Elsewhere, "Lost In My Dream" conjures up peppy Harry Nilsson harmonies while "Fools" goes straight yacht-rock with what might be the breeziest single of 2019 so far.
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One fan claimed the Spice Girls' voices were drowned out the entire time by the band ... so you couldn't hear the harmonies or even make out the words.
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My cousin Carl sang the verses, I did the "I'm pickin' up good vibrations" part on the chorus, and we all did the background harmonies, which are amazing.
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The quintet's psych pop topped with a melting rainbow of vocal harmonies sounded ready for way bigger stages than the small Toyota branded platform they played on Friday.
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The new Dirty Projectors song, "Keep Your Name," abandons the sneakily shredding guitars and unblemished vocal harmonies of past albums for pianos, programmed drums, and wild vocal modulation.
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The band doesn't have just one lead singer as Harvey, Jervis and Dumas all share frontman duties, and they are backed with harmonies from Deaton, Miller and Luther.
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His stimulating vibrant color harmonies as applied to nubile young women — titillatingly laid out on a flat picture plane — most definitely impacted the Western canon of Modern Art.
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Do you feel that a generation growing up on video game music and R&B is more open to explore with jazzier, more sophisticated chord progressions and harmonies?
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J. set) (Friday) The eclectic funk-jazz collagist Sinkane blends soulful falsetto harmonies with the kind of slippery, tinny electronic percolations that could soundtrack a Nintendo 93 game.
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While her pianist Tedd Firth bathed her in lush harmonies, she couldn't find a relaxed, dreamy style that would allow her to float happily downstream under the stars.
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And though she brings in a couple of vocal harmonies in the second verse, throughout both verses there is not so much as a bassline in the background.
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His laid-back vocals are backed only by a straightforward rock three-piece until a luxurious piano tumbles in for the chorus and DeMarco's falsetto harmonies kick in.
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It's their most fully realized music to date, capitalizing on Taylor's tense, snarling vocals to create a dichotomy between her harsh vocal harmonies and newfound melodies in production.
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The Electric Light Orchestra rose to prominence in the 1970s thanks to the way it imbued its earworm melodies with dense harmonies, mountainous song arrangements and ornate instrumentation.
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Placed between interactive electronics and a pair of laptops, this visionary singer and composer produced a rushing stream of looped and layered vocals, often falling into consonant harmonies.
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It's a stylistically diverse work of often-fraught subject matter (self-destruction and loss are common themes) that finds absolution in goosebump-inducing harmonies and slow burning orchestration.
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But Robinson's writing with a newfound perspective this time around—overlapping dizzy harmonies in gleeful collages as she sings of the ways other people warp your self-perception.
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Written as an engagement present, Previn first violin concerto, full of lush strings, Hollywood harmonies and wiry virtuosity, was dedicated to Mutter (Its subtitle is even "Anne-Sophie").
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The folk-rock band is known for its stirring vocal harmonies, and the single — which clocks in at an epic eight minutes and 45 seconds — is no exception.
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That danger comes through from the start of the opera: Over a deep, sustained pedal tone, the music heaves and surges with murky harmonies and a brassy undertow.
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But you can experience a premonition of that new piece on "The Armory Concert," which opens with "Wind" and closes with "Winds," both songs ringing with sober harmonies.
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The quartet "Where Is Evil" binds the opera's four voices into a tight matrix of counterpoint as the orchestra shifts from startling blasts to patches of elusive harmonies.
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The overtones and harmonies, the polarities in the sound, the physicality of the instrument, the unparalleled touch—harnessing the beast that is, and can be, a grand piano.
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In sharp contrast, Kamasi Washington, the young star of Los Angeles jazz, cultivated a bright, buoyant atmosphere, his Coltrane-like saxophone soaring over sweet harmonies and funky beats.
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There are passages in Rzewski's long piano piece, based on the song, where the plaintive melody is enshrouded in clusters evocative of Ives, or in dreamy jazzy harmonies.
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Mr. Bruner plays a six-string bass; in the deep end his sound is big and crumbly, but he often fingerpicks guitar-like harmonies on the higher strings.
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From there, the rich harmonies lead into a full performance with The Social Experiment, a gospel choir lining the crowd, the original quintet facing back towards the camera.
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Mompou fashions Chopin's theme into variations of dramatically contrasting moods and styles: some thick with watery, Debussy-inspired runs, or harmonies that pierce Chopin's theme with stinging dissonances.
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The accompanist treats the song with her own sense of passionate restraint, collapsing its harmonies at the center, as if to represent the song's fraught, nearly fatalist romanticism.
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Because of their tightly woven harmonies and rockabilly influences, this band of brothers from Minneapolis has racked up comparisons to two of music's most celebrated siblings: the Everlys.
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So too can the fact that all her music — from its fetching melodies and shadowy harmonies to the synergistic resolve of her bands — flows from her careful engineering.
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Her first No. 1 club hit, in 1999, was a song she co-wrote, "Unspeakable Joy," a Maurice Joshua production full of church organs and gospel-choir harmonies.
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That loop of grainy piano and that cave echo of a beat sound so chilling together, and the brief self-harmonies Ye does during the choruses are gorgeous.
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Milx careens between guttural rasps, hoarse roars, gritted-teeth spoken word, a husky croon (see the breathless vocal harmonies on the discomfitingly pretty opening of "Lights in the Sky").
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Those harmonies... The whole performance isn't online, unfortunately - presumably because it was impossible to film due to cosmic interference - but you get the gist from the short clip above.
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The second song, which begins "O but memory is not one but many," is more agitated, with the orchestra breaking into fluttering riffs or melting into sighing string harmonies.
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But in the early 2000s, well before many others, he was using those repetitions as a structure to contain improvisation, as well as rhythms and harmonies borrowed from pop.
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Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz have been releasing albums as Mandolin Orange since 2010, steadily building a following devoted to their quiet Americana, with timeless melodies and intricate harmonies.
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There, on Friday, I heard the tenor saxophonist Mark Turner's quartet, whose terse and mysterious music centers on the moving harmonies of Mr. Turner and the trumpeter Avishai Cohen.
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The groovily jazzy track is the perfect sonic landscape for 70s-era LA, a hazy song buoyed by the easy vocals of Alexander Brettin and backed gauzy girl harmonies.
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On their new album, Always Foreign, the band embraces that all the more, turning in songs that churn slowly, balancing soaring harmonies against moments that linger in the disquiet.
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Basically, we now know that when machines are listening to music, they "hear" the drums first, then some harmonies, and then pay attention to which instruments are being used.
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They're all slightly different; operatic vocals, loads of guitar harmonies, octavated leads, maybe a few synths and orchestral instruments, loads of double bass drums, dragons and all that business.
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Evan Stephens Hall's voice is flawless, even when he flickers between his mid-range and falsetto; the song rises and falls around intricate guitar flurries; the harmonies never err.
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They take soul legend Al Green's "I'm Still in Love With You" and give it a gentle chop, leaving Green's grainy falsetto and the song's backing harmonies largely untouched.
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An episode of crazed runs for both instruments leads to the concluding Allegretto, which sounds like a frenzied peasant wedding dance, meshed with stinging Modernist harmonies and fractured rhythms.
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He spent much of his days amid heaps of paper in a book-filled study, orchestral harmonies from the radio perfumed by the tweedy, comforting smell of pipe tobacco.
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Between their signature dance moves, eye-catching outfits, and smooth vocal harmonies, boy bands won the ears and hearts of people around the globe throughout the past few decades.
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In the second film, he also sang many of the backup harmonies for the villainous world-champion team Das Sound Machine and had a cameo as a German judge.
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In the first song ("No … the dreams have not vanished"), a melancholic vocal line spins and weaves then wafts away, as an orchestral postlude lingers, spiked with piercing harmonies.
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"They'll each play their own sets, and we've already practiced together, so Kira [Clark, vocalist for Muscle and Marrow] is going to do the harmonies with me," she explains.
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Once you create the major or minor key melody you like, you can switch on soprano and bass harmonies above and below it, creating a composition in three voices.
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But in the early 1970s, well before many others, he was using those repetitions as a structure to contain improvisation, as well as rhythms and harmonies borrowed from pop.
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As he sings about reality versus consoling illusion, the music trudges through Beatles-like chords with an undertow of simulated, sustained strings, building to a chorus with sighing harmonies.
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Dionne D. Figgins and Dwayne Cooper infuse "You're the Boss" with a teasing romance and sexual heat, and "Loving You" is a gorgeously unadorned display of doo-wop harmonies.
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Twenty-four huge oil works in splashes of blood red, electric blue and rich gold are his homage to the glorious color harmonies by the post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard.
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By his telling, it took years for his quintet, Phalanx Ambassadors, to master the shifting time signatures, oddly overlain harmonies and dyspeptic, misdirected melodies that define its debut album.
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That's because these layered and contrapuntal voices produce a dazzling spectrum of effects, like the swelling harmonies associated with traditional choral music and the crystal pings of personal computers.
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Last year she released a diffuse but smartly constructed album, "En Vie," on which she builds rich vocal harmonies and digs in deeply across lithesome ballads and dashing postbop.
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And this is one of Puccini's most complex and moving scores, with boldly modernist harmonies and hints of Debussy and Richard Strauss deftly folded into the composer's own voice.
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Often, her arrangements took advantage of a chamber orchestra or layers of vocal harmonies, and rather than seeming pumped full of grandeur, they were tiny miracles of poetic efficiency.
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" Prince was expanding his musical ambitions, writing odd-angled melodies (like "Let's Pretend We're Married") and toying with ambiguous harmonies, as in "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute).
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"It's a chamber piece, romantic and baroque in equal measure, with arresting harmonies and ravishing changes of tone," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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Halfway through, the piece obsessively explores frenetic riffs and rhythms, settling into grooves for long stretches, though passages of eerie harmonies lend a touch at once angelic and fearsome.
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Janacek tells this barbaric tale through an impassioned, vibrantly orchestrated score, including organ, a continually shifting flow of strangely stirring themes, fractured rhythms, piercing harmonies and crazed dance bits.
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"Fools," from this year's Raw Honey, is windswept 70s radio rock, replete with beachy vocal harmonies and a guitar solo that would make Walter Becker and Donald Fagen salivate.
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"Ghost Town" is one of the album's best and features G.O.O.D. newcomer 070 Shake and soothing Kid Cudi harmonies, adding excitement to the anticipation of their forthcoming joint album.
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On Powerplant, Tividad and Tucker have added drummer Miles Wintner; while female harmonies are still the center, louder guitars and commanding drums now drive the direction of Girlpool's songs.
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When he gets stymied with his equations for general relativity, he pulls out his violin and plays Mozart because it helps connect him to the harmonies of the spheres.
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Either way, I'm still sat here listening to the same Weeknd song over and over again, Daft Punk's vocoder harmonies like a pair of electric toothbrushes serenading each-other.
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"For You" is familiar enough, its tight harmonies hovering above languid strings, finding their place somewhere between Michael Bublè's Greatest Hits, a hymn book, and a triumphant national anthem.
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J. Set) (Tuesdays and Fridays) The eclectic funk-jazz collagist Sinkane blends soulful falsetto harmonies with the kind of slippery, tinny electronic percolations that could soundtrack a Nintendo 64 game.
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The hip-hop elements in Maxwell's music have receded, and his connections to 1960s and 1970s soul — the live instruments, the jazz harmonies, the undulating rhythms — have grown even stronger.
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After he lifted Earth, Wind & Fire's "That's the Way of the World" above Pentatonix's thicket of vocal beatboxing and a cappella harmonies, he called for universal accessibility for the disabled.
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" The singers were already slaying it with impeccable harmonies and high notes when they reached the song's last line, "And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!
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The commonality was our love for country music and for the harmonies which were such a huge part of it in the '70s and '80s… it took off from there.
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Fairchild's LBT partner Kimberly Schlapman then joins the two for "Little Rock," with harmonies that leave one wondering if a side project should be in order (Lady Big Town, anyone?).
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Luckily, Lady Antebellum will have plenty of time to nail down their harmonies – the seven-time Grammy winners hit the road starting this July for their Summer Plays on Tour.
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While militaristic screams have a steady presence throughout, it's the confident, layered vocal harmonies that provide the best evidence of their immense progression since 2011's In Tides and Drifts.
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"See you next year," Grande captioned the video, which features the "Into You" singer cooing what sounds like "You can feel it, feel it" over humming, chimes, and breathy harmonies.
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I'm With Her "See You Around" This trio caught my eye with their cheeky, feminist name and caught my ear with their bluegrass-infused harmonies and sparse but crisp musicianship.
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Ever since One Direction went on their self-imposed hiatus, you may be suffering from a lack of four-part harmonies and hair updates from the boys in the band.
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Instead, Daley's meant to function as one piece of a larger whole: distant piano melodies, muted pads and drum machines, judicious choral harmonies, all working in service of the vibe.
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We broke the story ... a company that owns a third of "Let's Get It On" claims Ed jacked the melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bassline, tempo, syncopation and ... yeah, basically EVERYthing.
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Paul Gauguin's decorative works, sculpture, wood carvings, and graphic artworks highlight his stimulating color harmonies and rich compositions, even as some of the subject matter sits uncomfortably with today's standards.
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But on other songs like "Emperor's New Clothes" I was listening to a lot of Queen for inspiration, trying to mimic how they do their harmonies, how they build them.
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Some things are always going to sound great, no matter how much time passes, and you can file this band's trademark harmonies (deployed judiciously but effectively here) into that category.
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To build a following and hustle up gigs, the band played in the subway and at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, combining soul music, doo-wop harmonies and Latin grooves.
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I love that, within a record, pentatonic scales can live alongside flamenco or African rhythms, harmonies inspired by R&B or contemporary music or classical music; oldies or Gregorian chants.
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The songs are careful and considered in the same way, full of these hesitant passages of acoustic guitar and gently sung harmonies, that bloom and unfold into self-assured anthemics.
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Here, over slow, groaning production by the Haxan Cloak, he sings high, tender and insistent, then breaks out into ecstatic harmonies à la Jodeci that resolve into church solemnity. J.C.
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Les Discrets kept the goth train rolling with the debut of their new material, which veers heavily towards post-punk with big harmonies, snappy percussion and chill, dreamy harmonized vocals.
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In "She May She Might," Mr. Kaplan sings about a woman who wishes she could "get outside her mind" or simply run away, in a tangle of unresolved modal harmonies.
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With a full band this time, he sings in a warm-ember baritone over wafted horn harmonies, seeking to reconcile Mr. Simon's devotional patriotism with a contemporary drive toward action.
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JON PARELES "I'm in love," the British vocalist Rita Ora proclaims in exploding harmonies, after she details a tryst — "kissing in the back of the cab" — that could lead further.
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But the achingly dense chromatic harmonies of the slow movement were rendered with loving care by the Accademia players, a reminder of the consistent high standards of this valuable ensemble.
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The arrangements of these songs, with their jazzy harmonies and splashy riffs, set the mood perfectly for Ravel's "Miroirs," a French Impressionist masterpiece given a scintillating yet sensitive performance here.
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Mr. Evans, a Philadelphia-based pianist, makes a minefield out of the typical postbop form — impishly twisting up a song's flow or washing out the harmonies with big, dissonant chords.
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When the spell of immobility resumes, seraphic harmonies give way to a colossal, demonic setting of fragments of the Libera Me from the Requiem Mass, with bells ringing anarchic changes.
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There are instances of something like choral speaking, too, in which members of an ensemble of voices intone a text on different pitches, forming distinct — if still talk-like — harmonies.
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The pianist Ellen Mandel, with help from the vocalists Verena McBee and Jessica Crandall, performed a composition of slow and lapping harmonies, using verses by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
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Girlpool's first album was striking for the two women's arresting harmonies — sometimes melding harshly together, sometimes weaving into a soft and sorrowful pair, backed only by a guitar and bass.
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Sometimes, particularly in a jukebox musical, a post-curtain number just wants to roll you and rock you and sing you what you want to hear — fan service with harmonies.
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The four Harmonies wear an enviable selection of furs and leotards, Gucci's posted up in a stairwell, and for this three minutes and fourteen seconds, everything is good in the world.
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Elton John's Carpool Karaoke episode came complete with some glorious costume changes and plenty of powerful, belting harmonies — but a dress-up version of "The Circle of Life" topped them all.
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Her practice represents the call and response between an object and the completed work, and in a musical sense, her sketches reveal all the lovely notes, melodies, and harmonies in between.
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It testifies in particular to Rosewoman's talents as an arranger of lushly braided horn harmonies, which fit oddly — but just right — into the wobbly flow of the group's three batá drummers.
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On "Cruiser" the band attempts to write a loud, rockin' riff, yet even this sounds automated; intricately woven around the bleepy keyboard hook and the floaty background harmonies, the song zooms.
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It becomes remarkable when one adds on the extra layers of doing their own vocal production on their complicated harmonies, producing their own beats, and playing instruments on their own songs.
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But her students still talk about the incredible beauty of her set-ups, each object carefully selected, individual fruits purchased from the overpriced Balducci's, and arranged to exhibit complex color harmonies.
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But after six years, they're back with their third record — and it has all the hallmarks of their most beloved material: grand, atmospheric folk riffs and soaring, multi-part harmonies. —A.
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You hear it embedded in the sigh and shuffle of the brushed snare, in the major key progression, and in the quivering backing harmonies of Moses Sumney, The-Dream, and Tweet.
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From his raspy auto-tune harmonies to his larger-than-life, mind-twisting production to his interpolation of his hometown's sound, you know a Travis Scott song when you hear one.
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Profiling Chance for GQ last August, Zach Baron said that the rapper worked for "actual months" on the song, layering the gospel harmonies and wringing every drop of sweetness from it.
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Tomlinson is one of four members of the chart-topping pop group also known as 1D, known for its wholesome image and polished pop harmonies that appeal to a teenage audience.
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Two of the three singles that Alex Giannascoli has released from his forthcoming LP as (Sandy) Alex G, Rocket, have been wistfully acoustic, leading with fiddles and harmonies and box pianos.
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The music Mr. Lang wrote for the gifted Mr. Tao in this haunting scene is no Bach pastiche, but a cosmic rumination, with melodic fragments, circling inner voices and hazy harmonies.
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In the Parliaments' early years, Clinton figured that this was what he had to do, and so the members dutifully synchronized their dance steps, polished their harmonies, and wore matching suits.
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Its six movements are infused with engaging rhythms, scales and harmonies (but no specific tunes) that Bartok picked up from his studies of ethnic music in Eastern Europe and North Africa.
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Drew similarly sets his short in space, envisioning the refueling of futuristic spacecraft, but other concepts include enchanted forests, digital art galleries, and abstract forms, all reacting to the same harmonies.
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In songs like "Fisherman" and "Did You See," his deep crooning reflects the harmonies most associated with afrobeats but in lyrical content, he offers the hood stories and boastfulness of rap.
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Listen to those damn harmonies, feel the energy of those lost loves, the ones you'll never take to Edition (or even a Holiday Inn), soak in the memories, taste the tears.
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Blue is represented by the lush, eerie harmonies of an invisible chorus; the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, one of the nation's best, performed both in L.A. and in New York.
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Walter Becker, the guitarist and songwriter who made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies and verbal enigmas in Steely Dan, his partnership with Donald Fagen, died on Sunday.
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But his sharply cut harmonies and intense, gnarled rhythms conveyed a manifestly Afrocentric sensibility, one that was slightly more barbed and rugged than the popular hard-bop sound of the day.
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Her overdubbed voice is fully entwined with thick synthesizer harmonies and buzzing, shimmering effects, as the song's multiple sections wander between elaborate, airy introspection and the solidity of a dance beat.
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Mr. Mitchell, a pianist, can create the illusion of complexity with just a few notes, or cause you to give up tracking his movements with a spill of square-peg harmonies.
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The ecologically minded can come for the very English style of environmentalism, the lyrical depiction of the natural world, the evocation of nature's harsh harmonies and the dissonant cruelty of humankind.
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The band, whose ranks include a number of Colombia natives, tackles topics like the immigrant experience and environmental justice in music accented by punchy horns, buzzy synths and full-throated harmonies.
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His pitched-up falsetto, gliding through the song's "mutating, colorful chords," make listening to "Earfquake" feel like a surrealist experience (in Tyler's own words, the harmonies sound "like a cloud melting").
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From the start, with the bustling orchestral introduction, he never tried to jazz up the score superficially, plumbing the music for inner voices, pungent harmonies, layered orchestral strands and rhythmic complexities.
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A cinnamon-dusted parable of sisterhood and self-reliance, the show has lured sizable audiences with the mouthwatering pie scent that suffuses the lobby and the lush harmonies of Bareilles's score.
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Accordingly, she began taking vocal classes and subsequently joined the Oratorio Society of New Jersey — she's an alto — and has been learning the intricacies of singing duets and four-part harmonies.
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Los Angeles-based Next Town Down are students of their predecessors; they've studied Boyz II Men's harmonies, New Edition's crossover appeal, and have the potential to reach B2K's pandemonium-level fandom.
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PRETTYMUCH "Would You Mind" (Syco/Columbia) The ecstasy of the peak boy-band era is due for a comeback — this has that, and also harmonies, and a sense of history. 17.
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His open-door vision of country, which embraces jazzy harmonies; western swing; gospel piano; pop songs; outlaw irreverence; rock drive; and a kindly, avuncular wisdom, is the city's presiding musical spirit.
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But in 255, when the Korean composer Isang Yun made his international breakthrough with the orchestral work "Réak," at Germany's Donaueschingen Festival, harmonies imitating an East Asian mouth organ were radical.
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As Engage, they play low-boil, medium-tempo music soaked in lovely harmonies; it's not about centrifugal motion or free improvising so much as it's about depth and connection and body.
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On the new album, Khalid embraces a fuller sound that often harks back to the 1980s and 1990s, with pillowy synthesizers, tickling guitars and multiple layers of his own vocal harmonies.
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J. Set) (Friday) The eclectic funk-jazz collagist Sinkane blends soulful falsetto harmonies with the kind of slippery, tinny electronic percolations that could serve as the soundtrack for a Nintendo 64 game.
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The action takes place in the 1960s, allowing the composer to channel the pop styles of the era, from doo-wop harmonies to proto-rock to late-period Frank Sinatra-style balladeering.
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It's nice to hear Khalid backed up by choirs of his own harmonies, and the four notes that Marshmello's put together in sequence are indeed notes that work together in a sequence.
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Gibb is the last surviving member of the fraternal trio whose falsetto harmonies and disco beats powered huge 1970s hits including "How Deep is Your Love," &apos&aposStayin&apos Alive" and "Tragedy.
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CM: I also remember that when it came to the chorus, and you and Stevie piped in with these faultless harmonies, I think everybody got goosebumps in the room at that point.
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Each of us just plays what we want to, in whatever way we like, which I suppose may turn out to be much like the way jazz harmonies and rhythms are composed.
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Their debut record The Kids Are Alright — out now — is an ethereal collection of joyful pop and R&B melodies and uplifting lyrics, brought to life by the sisters' rich, powerful harmonies.
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Ariana Grande is a stunning singer, the harmonies her and Corden cook up are truly goosebump-raising, and there's an entertaining segment where the two pop into a cafe for a snack.
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Gloomy pop-leaning epic, "The Descent," layers Tung-Barrysmith's slinky, foreboding vocals and ghostly background harmonies over mood-shifting time signatures and pulse-raising musical builds (plus, a carefully placed piano solo).
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What started as a "pretty self-indulgent" sketch of an idea toying with multiple harmonies and dark country-inflected tones soon became a mini-epic, set somewhere in a demented purgatorial state.
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Chloe x Halle had some of the smoothest and loveliest harmonies of the night, but it was their minimalist witch vibes that pushed this performance over the top, into something really special.
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But what makes Lil Big Pac special is that as a teen, Kodak can enter that conversation and articulately identify where he falls within it, except with carefully crafted bars and harmonies.
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On both "Scorpion Kick" and the EP as a whole, Dillan showcases her paradoxical sound, pairing what she describes as "soothing harmonies" with "vicious drum beats" in an examination of her persona.
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On many of his earlier projects, Ty sang through a haze of his own harmonies and a swirl of bass and minor-chord melodies—the sound of much mainstream hip-hop today.
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He helped them find the spark that soon became their hallmark by insisting that they think carefully about their vocal harmonies and such niceties of the arranger's art as introductions and endings.
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The music becomes alive with jazzy intensity and bursts of boogie-woogie, though filtered through hard-edged Modernist harmonies, as a roster of dancers led by two men take over the stage.
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That's partly because the harmonies it creates feel of a piece with the neon landscapes of Cashmere Cat songs, and partly because it formed the backbone of one the record's first songs.
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Rather than look "punk," Descendents have actually been punk, eschewing all of the things bands "should do" in favor of playing angular and often discordant pop-inspired songs with melodies and harmonies.
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Meanwhile, the music used richly ambiguous harmonies rooted in Debussy, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins, giving the songs a sophisticated core that would be widely influential across jazz and pop.
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"Everyday," a song about longing and fear of loneliness, moves from Beatles-style piano bounce and bass countermelodies to a chorus full of exultant vocal harmonies recalling the Mamas and the Papas.
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Their debut self-titled EP, which is reissued Friday, showcases this: an adventurous, loose, and mesmerizing six-song collection that was the product of guitar-heavy experiments and hocketed, delicate vocal harmonies.
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She used electronics to build up a song with her voice, loop by loop — gorgeous harmonies and counterpoint — then moved to that sound, wafting her arms calligraphically as she vocalized another layer.
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The score risks sounding amorphous at times, but Ms. Saariaho prevents this by injecting shards of dissonance, elusive harmonies that slip and groan, and spiraling figures that create moments of dizzying intensity.
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Schumann placed a spotlight on this nook of musical language, back a couple of levels from the thing ultimately craved, deep into the interior of the way harmonies pull at our hearts.
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But as he sings "Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside," the heavens suddenly open up with a cathedral-size chord, shimmering percussion and choirlike vocal harmonies, a paradise of pop artifice.
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This album represents the height of modal jazz: music that has all the component parts of hard-bop, but with the harmonies cooled and simplified, creating a sense of indeterminacy and suspension.
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Tweedy lent his voice to a jangling tune called "This World," while Spiritualized's Jason Pierce added subtle harmonies to "Bring It On Lord," a paean to valuing the days you have left.
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The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms.
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The track's hazy sounds have a similar appeal: Over a background of gently spinning harmonies, a small corps of trumpets restates its part over and over, warped a little differently each time.
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It's a brief collection of seven songs that use only a lone piano and her whispery vocals — sometimes solo, more often wafting in as overdubbed harmonies — all suspended amid reverberations and hiss.
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Crosby's name is affixed to two supergroups — one with Neil Young, one without — whose close harmonies and open-chord, acoustic-guitar-driven sound are fixtures of many a parental and grandparental playlist.
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Crosby's name is affixed to two supergroups — one with Neil Young, one without — whose close harmonies and open-chord, acoustic-guitar-driven sound are fixtures of many a parental and grandparental playlist.
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"Les Danaïdes" caused a sensation at its première, in 21816: its stark harmonies and solemn ensembles paid homage to Gluck, while its Italianate strains brought a new flavor to French tragic opera.
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But on "Hard Feelings/Loveless" — a particularly weird and great interlude on Melodrama — she stands on a rooftop with a group of young women and sings a cappella harmonies with a smile.
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"It's weird to me that people couldn't sing or do harmonies because we've been doing that since we were really little—our mom and dad taught us to do that," offers Brian.
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J. Set) (Tuesdays and Fridays through 230/2129) The eclectic funk-jazz collagist Sinkane blends soulful falsetto harmonies with the kind of slippery, tinny electronic percolations that could soundtrack a Nintendo 8 game.
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The quiet, slow harmonies are a consequence of the dark background and the brighter, higher pitched sounds towards the middle of the piece are created by the sonification of the bright sun disk.
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Until her untimely death in 2002, fellow vocalist Mary Hansen would act as the ying to Sadier's yang, their breezy, two-part harmonies offsetting Sadier's heavier, more stoic vocals with her sweet falsetto.
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During the latter half of the film, when the rhythm accelerates, the singer drops the harmonies and transitions into a fast-paced and beautiful tirade about ownership of and access to public space.
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Plucks of banjo, strings, and vocal harmonies from Medicine Bow add an Americana flavor and infuse the music with just as much mystery as the lush woods that the songs are inspired by.
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But Leave Me Alone hides anxieties beneath its wine-addled revelry and Bay Area guitars, with Phil Spector-esque harmonies carrying the same heartache and longing that his 60s girl groups once embodied.
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This jingle-jangle track, with its late '60s-inspired guitar harmony covered with just a dash of the harmonies that bring Spiritualized to mind, feels like a modern take on a throwback track.
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That's been apparent since he started getting recognition in 2017 with his track "Lay Down," which joined the nasal harmonies usual heard in Louisiana rap with the bouncy tempo of Bay Area rap.
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But eventually, the trio's vocal blend became among the most iconic harmonies in country music — a fact that made Cook's announcement, in 2017, that he suffers from Parkinson's disease all the more devastating.
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"It's got a few of my favorite things: soulful chords, cosmic arps, ambient textures, a galloping bass, and crisp vocals and lush harmonies by the amazing Fiora," the producer told THUMP over email.
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Taking Cochran's swagger and marrying it with the equally influential harmonies of the Everly Brothers, the pair created "Twenty Fine Fingers," a rollicking tongue twister that launched forward at break-neck speed. 15.
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In his Piano Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to the writer Thomas Mann), the music's jaunty, street-smart energy blends with pungent harmonies to create a steely tension that sometimes brings to mind Shostakovich.
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Take lead single "Heavy Accent," premiering today below: It's a meandering, guitar-driven jam, all warm harmonies and beat scene grooves that halfway through reveals a lot more going on beneath the surface.
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"Deep Six Textbook" is a gorgeous slow-burner of a track, embracing the pat-a-cake eccentricities that make the band's live sets so disturbing and adding layers of breathy harmonies on top.
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Bassist Nat Baldwin has returned to the group, as has drummer Mike Johnson, but the women who arguably helped Longstreth pioneer the sound his band's most known for, its harmonies, have been replaced.
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It also highlights a funny thing about their gang vocal approach—the lilting close harmonies and stacked melodies—which is that even songs about sipping illicit substances from styrofoam cups sound absolutely heavenly.
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Released last week, Lightsleeper is a display of everything the father and son do best: rock ballads, trippy harmonies, percussion that thumps and loops and strings that reverberate to the point of psychedelia.
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Mr. Leonhart's gently bowed bass served as an anchor for Ms. Carroll's soaring and dipping pianism, which with its rich clustered harmonies and Ms. Carroll's delicate touch suggested Debussy with a jazz pulse.
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Cowell can make the piano dance by playing in a jaggy rhythm, or simply by manipulating the tone of his harmonies, or by throwing his right and left hands into a thrashing repartee.
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"Nan Arayo" has it all: tender soul harmonies, rat-tat-tat drum machine beats, a Flavor Flav sample and a video that sets hip-hop dance routines to a hard-rock guitar riff.
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One of Coltrane's earliest biographers, C.O. Simpkins, described the quartet's shows in these years — with Mr. Jones lighting fires and Mr. Tyner splashing them with multihued harmonies — as a kind of euphoric cleanse.
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With all of these planets occupying your house of social networking and making strong harmonies with futuristic Uranus, you can share your ideas and content in a way that reaches a large audience.
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The pianist Mr. Cables, 73, upholds a history of 20th-century piano playing that includes Walter Davis Jr.'s sturdy soul-jazz, the understated erudition of Mulgrew Miller and Herbie Hancock's kaleidoscopic harmonies.
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In between them, Mr. Andsnes played Jörg Widmann's "Idyll and Abyss" (2009), in which motifs and melodic fragments that evoke Schubert are folded into a modernist haze of clusters, harmonies and squiggling lines.
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This required adapting the dissonances and harmonies peculiar to Georgian music to five-line notation, and deciphering the cryptic shorthand used by medieval monks to guide contemporary singers through melodies they already knew.
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This 35-year-old pianist plays with utter grace and command, throwing big blankets of harmony across the keyboard; even when his harmonies turn dark or dissonant, they still feel plush and welcoming.
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Whereas other songs dabble in tradition, silliness, and the perceived spectacle of the holiday, it's one of the album's more straightforwardly spiritual moments, grounded in multi-part harmonies and barely-there guitar picking.
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We see these anxious scenes repeated several times, nearly verbatim, but each repetition is recolored, like a melody underscored with different harmonies, by the new information Henry has turned up in the meantime.
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Sparse at first, it keeps sprouting new motifs and sounds — reverential organ, pizzicato strings, quasi-medieval choir harmonies, a stereo array of percussion, pitched-up voices — simulations of fecundity on a dying planet.
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This movement may be the most well known of the cycle, but Ms. Lin felt like she didn't truly hear it until she took it in as part of the entire "Harmonies" set.
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Shostakovich took up the call in his "Song of the Forests" from 1949, an oratorio that glorified Soviet forestation campaigns in Siberia through pleasing, triumphant harmonies and an easy-to-understand text setting.
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Rather, his warm harmonies, often stacks of unlikely parts, and his willingness to interrupt his own flow with an unexpected stem have affected both how musicians accompany each other and how they compose.
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Grande orchestrates her songs with all that her voice can do, from solo acrobatics to massed harmonies; her stripped-down instrumentation is a matter of self-sufficient bravado that fully underscores her lyrics.
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Choral singing of the Alexandrov sort is bright, chiseled, with we're-all-in-this-together harmonies, stable meters, textbook diction — a kind of a foursquare vocal version, if you will, of Glenn Miller.
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In contemplative ballads or springy, danceable tunes, her music was transparent: an electric oud shared her melodies, a hand drum supplied the beat, and virtually the only harmonies came from a backup singer.
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On it, Mitchell sings the part of Eurydice; Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver, is Orpheus; Ani DiFranco is Persephone; the Haden Triplets, as the Fates, "laid their tight sister harmonies down," Mitchell said.
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Mr. Holt essentially selected notes from Bach's harmonies and dramatically prolonged them to make a work — less an arrangement than a radical transformation — that unfolds as a series of extremely slow, sustained sonorities.
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Unlike Miranda and Jackson, the Schuyler Sisters sing without their traditional backing chorus from the musical, in a stripped-down arrangement that allows their Destiny's Child-esque harmonies to shine clean and bright.
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Produced and written by the R&B/hip-hop outfit Full Force, this guitar-laced ballad from their eponymous first album is a soulful showcase for the quintet's glistening harmonies — especially on that bridge.
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The rawness of their recordings means that they are not quite as suited to easy listening as the beautiful melodies and harmonies of Queen or the upbeat power chords of AC/DC (see chart).
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While the improvisation in jazz requires a focus on harmonies and being comfortable adapting to unexpected musical changes, classical musicians learn to emphasise technique so that they can perform music as the composer intended.
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And those etherical harmonies you hear on this track come courtesy of Lisa Hannigan, a fellow Irish woman who spun off a solo career after a time backing up the Irish ballader Damien Rice.
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It's a sparkling, hook-laden track that immediately gets under your skin with its wall-of-sound chorus, rife with crisp guitar strums, cascading riffs, and raw harmonies led by vocalist-guitarist Cody Blanchard.
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"Garden Shed," whose synthesizer rays and piercing lead guitar pass like a shimmery breeze, and "See You Again," whose dizzy, bittersweet harmonies comfort with the slightest hint of disquiet, would delight in any case.
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They're wildly different from one another—the former is a haunted, harpsichord-driven, half-minimal track; the latter is a country song, replete with slide violins and gorgeous harmonies from the brilliant Emily Yacina.
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