Throughout its history, the chanson's harmonic devices have been limited but effective, just as the melodies have remained fresh after many hearings.
The Five also adopted a series of harmonic devices to create a distinct "Russian" style and color different from Western music.
Presumably, these pieces were composed for domestic use, yet they explore a variety of keys, contrapuntal textures and harmonic devices.
The music, for example, frankly isn't much, either in its tame melodic gestures or its warmed-over harmonic devices.
On the contrary, it incorporates both technique as a means to itself and the harmonic devices found in older classical piano music.
Bebop musicians also employed several harmonic devices not typical of previous jazz.
And it is also true that Duke Ellington adopted and reinterpreted some harmonic devices in European contemporary music.
There are six sections and six melodic and harmonic devices as well as a meter of six.
The song has an unusual harmonic device in that the bridge ends on the tonic chord, rather than the more usual dominant.
Two harmonic devices are employed in the sonatas to create this effect:
