Harmony

This article is about musical harmony and harmonies. For other uses of the term, see Harmony (disambiguation). In Western music, harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. The study of harmony may often refer to the study of harmonic progressions, the movement from one pitch simultaneity to another, and the structural principles that govern such progressions. In Western Music, harmony often refers to the "vertical" aspects of music, distinguished from ideas of melodic line, or the "horizontal" aspect. For this reason, considerations of counterpoint or polyphony are often distinguished from those of harmony, though contrapuntal writing of the common practice period of western music is often conceived and defined in terms of underlying harmonic motion. Legato= smooth and flows together.
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(n.)
The science which treats of their construction and progression.
  

(n.)
The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
  

(n.)
See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
  

(n.)
Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
  

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A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
  

(n.)
A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.
  

Noun
1. compatibility in opinion and action
(synonym) harmoniousness
(hypernym) compatibility
(hyponym) congruity, congruousness, congruence
(derivation) harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree
2. the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
(synonym) musical harmony
(hypernym) music
(hyponym) harmonization, harmonisation
3. a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
(synonym) concord, concordance
(hypernym) order
(hyponym) peace
(derivation) harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree
4. agreement of opinions
(synonym) concord, concordance
(hypernym) agreement
5. an agreeable sound property
(antonym) dissonance
(hypernym) sound property
(hyponym) consonance, harmoniousness