These overtones blend or clash according to the harmonic changes.

While the harmonic and dramatic changes in the madrigal around 1600 may seem abrupt, the addition of instruments was not a new development.

"It is not the type of score where you go through crazy harmonic changes and modulations," said the composer.

Melodic momentum, in other words, was made to express the harmonic changes going on beneath it.

The music in the above example has breadth and serenity because harmonic change is restricted to only two chords a bar.

Startling harmonic changes make Rossinian simplicity not so simple at that.

Color replaced harmonic change as a means of movement.

Recent musicians change make more harmonic changes than in the past, but still use only major chords.

Dominated by percussion, each of the music's four movements treats the same material with harmonic changes.

Working with different tunings, she managed to pull slight harmonic changes out of her instrument.