reharmonization
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + harmonization.
Noun
[edit]reharmonization (countable and uncountable, plural reharmonizations)
- The process of reharmonizing a musical work; a musical work made by reharmonizing another work.
- 2008 February 12, Ben Ratliff, “A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?”, in New York Times[1]:
- Some of what “River” accomplishes as a jazz record is serious indeed. Mr. Hancock’s version of Duke Ellington’s “Solitude” is the modern jazz process itself: a complete reharmonization of a familiar song, with rhythm that keeps vanishing and reappearing.