Typical for his music, the band glided through shifting harmonic backgrounds.

Lyric ideas of deceptive simplicity hover over a sparsely figured, ambiguous harmonic background.

They give a good harmonic background.

Accompaniment can sometimes be reduced to a very simple harmonic background with very little movement.

This is fairly subdued; he's providing a harmonic background, not interfering with her.

The song was led by El DeBarge mixing tenor and falsetto with his siblings' harmonic backgrounds backing him up.

The accompaniment part usually provides the harmonic background and the rhythmic structure for the piece of music or song.

The harmonic background is usually provided by one or more instruments that play a chord progression.

At one point the clarinet seems stuck in a motivic rut, sadly leaping up and down between octave B tones over a shifting harmonic background.

His set, at the Tap Room, was rife with blues feeling, even through he often played music with no harmonic background.