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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords, textures and tonalities are identified, defined, and categorized in the development of …

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Chords and tension

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Consonance and dissonance in balance

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related to Citations · 24
Harmony → Advance Music, Barrie, Carl, Clarendon Press, Dahlhaus, Gjerdingen, Graf, Harmonic Tonality, ISBN, Jazz Harmony, Merwe, Nettles, Origin, Origins, Oxford, Peter, Popular Style, Princeton University Press, Richard, Robert
related to Types · 16
Harmony → Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, But, Béla Bartók, Carl Dahlhaus, Close, Coordinate, Edgard Varèse's Density, George Perle, Interval, Medieval, Renaissance, See, Subordinate, The, Voicing
related to Etymology and definitions · 13
Harmony → According, Ambiguities, Aristoxenus, Current, Elements, European, Greek, In, Pythagorean, Pythagoreans, The, While, Whittall
related to Chords and tension · 10
Harmony → A-flat, Chord, Depending, Dyads, For, In, Major, Quartal, To, Western
related to Familiarity · 6
Harmony → Chords, Familiarity, For, Individual, This, Western
is a · 4
Harmony → concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, hierarchical tonality or tonal harmony well known today, older Medieval and Renaissance tonalité ancienne, process
related to Further reading · 4
Harmony → Ebenezer, Practice, Prout, Theory
related to External links · 3
Harmony → Chord Geometry, Graphical Analysis, Harmony Tool

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Harmonyis aconcept of combining different sounds in order to create new0.90text
Harmonyis aprocess0.90text
Harmonyis ahierarchical tonality or tonal harmony well known today0.90text
Harmonyis aolder Medieval and Renaissance tonalité ancienne0.90text
chordsinstance ofharmonic objects0.80text
texturesinstance ofharmonic objects0.80text
tonalities are identifiedinstance ofharmonic objects0.80text
definedinstance ofharmonic objects0.80text
and categorized in the development of these theoriesinstance ofharmonic objects0.80text
melodyinstance ofand often overlaps with related musical concepts0.80text
timbreinstance ofand often overlaps with related musical concepts0.80text
and form.A particular emphasis on harmony is one of the core concepts underlying the theoryinstance ofand often overlaps with related musical concepts0.80text

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