harmony — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Agreement or accord.

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   December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweek America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

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3. The academic study of chords.

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4. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.

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5. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.

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   I did not know anything more about music,only about finger exercises, difficult tasks, contradictions in the theory of harmony, and tedious piano lessons from a sarcastic teacher who saw in my […]

6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

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   a harmony of the Gospels

Noun

1. compatibility in opinion and action

   Synonyms

   harmoniousness

   Broader terms

   compatibility

2. the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

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   musical harmony

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   music

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

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   concordconcordance

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   order

4. agreement of opinions

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   concordconcordance

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   agreement

5. an agreeable sound property

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   dissonance

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   sound property