And "Liggeey," with lyrics about the importance of hard work, sets its high, asymmetrical vocal phrases over a classic chord progression from doo-wop.

But listen closely, and you hear complex rhythmic patterns and boldly asymmetrical phrases.

Instead of balanced phrase structures typical of string quartet writing up to that period, he favored asymmetrical phrases that build themselves into larger cohesive groups called "sentences."

The bracing music, with its sometimes asymmetrical phrases, is enriched through energetic motifs in the strings, horn flourishes and subtle writing for winds.

The characteristics of this song exhibit extreme rhythmic flexibility, an asymmetrical phrase structure and tonal ambiguity.

If these brassy choruses are somewhat bombastic, there is a subtext of foreboding in Prokofiev's clashing harmonies and asymmetrical phrases.

Built from gentle melodic riffs, including children's piano-practice tunes, quizzical harmonies and asymmetrical phrases, the music is at once beguiling and unsettling.

He captures the dancelike quality of the accompanimental figurations and negotiates the music's shifting meters and asymmetrical phrases with ease.

The astringent harmonies and asymmetrical phrases come, the composer suggested, from the example of Nordic folk music.

Length and symmetry of phrases: Haydn experiments with asymmetrical phrases and syncopations.