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The last movement sprawled across two LP sides, and the break between them fell at a bad moment, in the middle of a harmonic progression.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
The circular harmonic progression — which returns again and again to the same emotional climax — pushed forward with direction, adding momentum to our imagining of the opera’s trajectory.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
The harmonic progression is difficult to pin down as major or minor, but there is an unmistakable dark and menacing quality to the music.
—Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2019
But the rest of the music breathes a highly individual romanticism filled with a lyrical ease, bold harmonic progressions and other wonders that look ahead to Anton Bruckner’s sacred choral works.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
David Charles Abell favored quick tempos, which sometimes glossed over instrumental sonorities or trenchant harmonic progressions that, when brought out, are great clues to story and character.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 16 Sep. 2017
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
The circular harmonic progression — which returns again and again to the same emotional climax — pushed forward with direction, adding momentum to our imagining of the opera’s trajectory.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
The harmonic progression is difficult to pin down as major or minor, but there is an unmistakable dark and menacing quality to the music.
—Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2019
But the rest of the music breathes a highly individual romanticism filled with a lyrical ease, bold harmonic progressions and other wonders that look ahead to Anton Bruckner’s sacred choral works.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
David Charles Abell favored quick tempos, which sometimes glossed over instrumental sonorities or trenchant harmonic progressions that, when brought out, are great clues to story and character.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 16 Sep. 2017
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“Harmonic progression.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harmonic%20progression. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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