harmonically
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Adverb
harmonically (comparative more harmonically, superlative most harmonically)
- In a harmonic manner.
- With reference to harmony.
- 1987 April 18, Tom Grabosky, “Gay Men's Voices Rise Up Singin'”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
- I was very impressed with the obvious amount of work that went into the learning and synchronization of such a complex and harmonically and difficult score.
- 1984, Carol Gertrud Isaac, Three compositions: Perimeter drive, A quartet, Shot?, page v:
- Perimeter Drive explores the potential for a single instrument to function timbrally, harmonically, and rhythmically as a multiple resource.
- 2004, Robert S. Hatten, “Semiotic Grounding in Markedness and Style: Interpreting a Style Type in the Opening of Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, Op. 70, no. 1”, in Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Musical Meaning and Interpretation), Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part one (Markedness, Topics, and Tropes), page 24:
- The lyrical “y” theme unfolds above what at first suggests an ongoing dominant pedal, but harmonically the theme does not sound unstable—unlike the agitated dominant pedal points enhancing the (tragic) obsessiveness of the second themes in the first movements of Op. 2, no. 1 (in the relative major, A♭, but with mixtural ♭6̂) and Op. 31, no. 2 (in A minor, the dominant of D minor).
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in a harmonic manner
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