Example sentences for: kern

How can you use “kern” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the third measure of the next statement (Example 2.5b), Kern sets the word "fancy" with a fancy (and deceptive) resolution to a minor triad on the sixth degree of the scale.

  • He describes the life of the Mexican vaqueros, how their lives were spent working on large ranches like the Tejon Ranch and the Kern County Land Co.

  • Here Kern harmonizes the tonic or central key, D, with a conventional tonic D-major triad.

  • -- Gary Kern

  • In 99 percent of his songs, Jerome Kern's music was written before the words, and he was notorious for declining to accommodate his lyricists--no extra notes so that an ingenious word might be made to fit, and certainly no concessions to literal meaning in his melody or harmony.


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