But what he did inside the form is astonishing, turning the simplest harmonic and melodic framework into a radically different composition, junk metamorphosed into jewelry.

The performer frequently obliterates the explicit harmonic framework ("going outside") but retains a hidden link so as to be able to return to it in a seamless fashion.

In the Albinoni, similarly constructed with a repetitive harmonic framework, Arpino provides a lively beat in the central section that tempts Loussier to some sassy improvisation.

Throughout the concert, his treatments of standards spilled chords, obscuring the original harmonic framework of the tunes.

By the Baroque era (1600 to 1750), the tonal harmonic framework was fully formed, and the various musical functions of the semitone were rigorously understood.

In some musical genres, such as jazz and blues, even more freedom is given to the performer to engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework.

LEAD: Playing jazz can be a strategic exercise in which the harmonic framework of a tune, understood by all the musicians on the bandstand, becomes the field for a creative game.

Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

In jazz, fusion, and related genres, a background vamp provides a performer with a harmonic framework upon which to improvise.

Eschewing common jazz practice, Shepp does not improvise new melodic lines within the spirituals' harmonic framework, but plays short, impromptu passages around a melodic idea.