The Tongan groups usually feature strong vocals, solo or choral, haunting minor key harmonies, and guitar backup.
Then "At the Cafe Centrale," dedicated to friends in Madrid, moves with the minor harmonies of a flamenco piece.
As the music swirled about him, its marvelous minor harmonies inflamed his imagination, and he became for a moment the romantic Pole lost in a vast horizon.
His old clear major and minor harmonies sometimes turn ambiguous, and straightforward love lyrics have given way to doubts and apocalyptic thoughts.
In minor harmony the sixth scale step is usually avoided, and the 13th is not regarded as an available tension.
In his modal approach to minor harmony Haerle does not use the term avoid note, but discusses "intolerably dissonant" notes and how they should be resolved.
The composition explores the use of major and minor harmonies without the syntax of common practice tonality.
See this month's solo analysis for an example of Harmonic minor harmony.
Wickman praised Usher's vocals, describing them as "calculated" to make you feel "uneasy, swirling around in minor harmonies".
The second theme lacks the energy of the first, remaining a static motif hovering over oscillating major and minor harmonies.