harmony (noun)

  • 11harmony — har|mo|ny [ harməni ] noun ** 1. ) uncount a situation in which people live and work well with other people, and in a way that does not damage things around them: racial/social/domestic harmony harmony between: He had to ensure that there was… …

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  • 12open harmony — noun : an arrangement of the note or tones of a musical chord in which the three upper parts encompass an octave or more called also open position; compare close harmony * * * open harmony noun (music) Chords not in close position • • • Main… …

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  • 13harmony — [ˈhɑːməni] noun 1) [U] a situation in which people live and work in a happy, peaceful way with others racial/social/domestic harmony[/ex] 2) [C/U] musical notes that are sung or played at the same time, making a pleasant sound …

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  • 14harmony — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. agreement, concurrence, concord; accompaniment; order, symmetry; tunefulness, euphony; congruity; proportion; unison; peace, amity, friendship. See music, unity, friend. Ant., discord. II (Roget s IV) …

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  • 15harmony — /ˈhaməni / (say hahmuhnee) noun (plural harmonies) 1. agreement; accord; harmonious relations. 2. a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. 3. Music a. any simultaneous combination of notes. b. the simultaneous… …

  • 16musical harmony — noun the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords • Syn: ↑harmony • Derivationally related forms: ↑harmonic (for: ↑harmony), ↑harmonious (for: ↑harmony …

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  • 17four-part harmony — noun harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines • Hypernyms: ↑harmony, ↑musical harmony * * * /fawr pahrt , fohr / harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines …

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  • 18imitative harmony — noun Onomatopoeia. Primitive languages being founded on the direct imitation of natural sounds, necessarily abound in imitative harmony …

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  • 19close harmony — noun Music harmony in which the notes of the chord are close together, typically in vocal music …

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  • 20dispersed harmony — (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : open harmony …

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