Certain turns, certain harmonic progressions and interrupted cadences, were as indispensable to recitative as many turns of speech are to social intercourse.
It is easy to trace the simple expressive phrase as it is extended and rounded into a well-formed melody, and then to follow the different subjects so obtained until, by progressions and interludes, they are welded into a whole.
In the majority of cases, diverging and converging progressions simply consist in the gradual ascent of the three upper parts, with the bass descending.
Sometimes these progressions involve an increase or a decrease in tone.
In converging progressions the tripled and doubled parts are simplified, as the duplicating instruments cease to play.
The handling of such progressions requires the greatest care.
All parts of Scientific Management are so closely related that it is impossible to make a successful progressive step in one branch without simultaneously making all the related progressions in other branches that go with it.
Not until these are all discovered, described, and standardized, the progression noted, and standard progressions outlined, can methods of least waste be adopted.
In the same way, music in which the progressions were germane to the existing tonality-feeling, while still not absolutely obvious, would not be less quickening to the musical sense, even if learned by heart.
So it is that music which presents only the old, simple progressions gives the greatest sense of ease, but the least sense of effort--the ideal motion not being hindered on its way.
So had her mind forestalled all the progressions of that conversation, that for a moment she was silent.
Does the music contain progressions in semitones, or chromatic intervals?
The progressionsof intervals, the modulations, embellishments, rhythmical effects, etc.
He has, for instance, theories as to the textures of sounds, and his chord-formations and progressions are quite his own.
This, with progressions of augmented fourths and major sevenths, gives to the Mazurkas of Chopin an exotic character apart from their novel and original content.
There are traces of the master throughout, particularly in the E flat minor Trio, but there are some vileprogressions and an air of vulgarity surely not Chopin's.
We look in vain for beauty of melody and harmony; dreary unisons, querulous melodic phrases, hollow-eyed chords, hard progressions and modulations throughout every part of the polonaise proper.
We may take note of the plain chord progressionswhich intervene in the first and last sections of the impromptu; such progressions are of frequent occurrence in Chopin's works.
The first and last sections of the one in G minor are plaintive and longing, and have a wailing accompaniment; the chordprogressions of the middle section glide along hymn-like.
It goes without saying that all the movements were short; they consisted either of simple tunes or of series of harmonic progressions broken up into figures or patterns.
There are no--or few--contrapuntal formulas, hardly any mere chord progressions broken into arpeggios and figurated designs.
The truth of the matter is that ascending progressions may arise from opposite shades of meaning.
At first they spoke of a new symphony composed by a daring young Frenchman, who had striven to reproduce vices in notes and to summon up visions of things damnable by harmonic progressions which frequently defied the laws of harmony.
The portamento may be introduced in double-stopping progressions for effect, but more knowledge and judgment is necessary for its successful use than in single melodic progression.
The most difficult progressions in octaves are those which are played in unison, that is, the higher and lower notes being sounded simultaneously--the slightest faults in intonation are here most painfully evident.
The progressions are correct enough, are good enough grammar, yet the result is more disconcerting, even distressing, to the ear than a schoolboy's first efforts.
Those progressions were not only frequently repeated in the same melody, but some of the favourite ones recurred in several of their melodies.
And thus are also our progressions in the womb, that is, our formation, motion, our birth or exclusion.
Now since that time (as we have already declared) the Stars have varied their longitudes; and having made large progressions from West to East, the time of the Dog-stars ascent must also very much alter.
The progressions of life in that world appear in like manner to be in time, for those there live with one another as men in the world live with one another; and this is not possible without the appearance of time.
And with progressions of time, in the spiritual world, distances in progress through space coincide; as may be shown from many things.
That Reyer also venerates Wagner but shows itself more in the use of the German master's harmonic progressions than in the adoption of his methods.
This does not mark years and days by successive progressions and revolutions, but in its appearance it marks changes of state; and this, as has been shown in the preceding chapter, is not done by fixed alternations.
That a man, as to his spirit, can be translated in this manner, is inconceivable to the sensual man, since he is in space and in time, and measures his progressions according to them.
His harmonic progressions are for the most part as incoherent as those of his predecessors, and, as might be expected with his peculiar aptitudes, he did very little for design.
But the tremendous effect of the dissonantprogressions in "Arianna" quite demolished all the arguments of the opponents of the novelty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "progressions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
