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Examples of harmonic progression in a Sentence
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Produced with admirable restraint by Justus West, the track paints a stark picture with rugged guitar lines, electronic loops, and a stunning harmonic progression in the middle verse.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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.
—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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Word History
First Known Use
1671, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of harmonic progression was
in 1671
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“Harmonic progression.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harmonic%20progression. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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