harmony








noun, plural har·mo·nies.

  1. agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
  2. a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity.
  3. Music.
    1. any simultaneous combination of tones.
    2. the simultaneous combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear; chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
    3. the science of the structure, relations, and practical combination of chords.
  4. an arrangement of the contents of the Gospels, either of all four or of the first three, designed to show their parallelism, mutual relations, and differences.

noun plural -nies

  1. agreement in action, opinion, feeling, etc; accord
  2. order or congruity of parts to their whole or to one another
  3. agreeable sounds
  4. music
    1. any combination of notes sounded simultaneously
    2. the vertically represented structure of a piece of musicCompare melody (def. 1b), rhythm (def. 1)
    3. the art or science concerned with the structure and combinations of chords
  5. a collation of the material of parallel narratives, esp of the four Gospels
n.

late 14c., from Old French armonie “harmony,” also the name of a musical instrument (12c.), from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmonia “agreement, concord of sounds,” also as a proper name, the personification of music, literally “means of joining,” used of ship-planks, etc., also “settled government, order,” related to harmos “fastenings of a door; shoulder,” from PIE *ar-ti-, from *ar- “to fit together” (see arm (n.1)). Musical sense is oldest in English; that of “agreement of feeling, concord” is from late 14c.

The sounding of two or more musical notes at the same time in a way that is pleasant or desired. Harmony, melody, and rhythm are elements of music.

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