HARMONY

Harmony

In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches, or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic line, or the "horizontal" aspect. Counterpoint, which refers to the interweaving of melodic lines, and polyphony, which refers to the relationship of separate independent voices, are thus sometimes distinguished from harmony.

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harmony

Noun

  1. Agreement or accord.
  2. a pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds
  3. The academic study of chords.
  4. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
  5. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.


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