harmony

     

In Western music, harmony is the use of ifferent pitches simultaneously, and chords, actual or implied, in music. The study of harmony may often refer to the study of harmonic progressions, the movement from one pitch simultaneously 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.

Trivia about harmony

  • I think we can all agree, Three Dog Night's "Old-Fashioned Love Song" was "comin' down in three part" this
  • Melody, rhythm & this third main element, used as a synonym for "chord", making music beautiful
  • "The Four Seasons" is part of a work titled "Il Cimento Dell'armonia...", "The Test of" this
  • Important elements in music are melody & this pleasing combination of tones, from the Greek for "joint"