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The combining of notes simultaneously, to produce chords, and successively, to produce chord progressions. The term is used descriptively to denote notes and chords so combined, and also prescriptively to denote a system of structural principles governing their combination. In the latter sense, harmony has its own body of theoretical [[literature]].
The combining of notes simultaneously, to produce chords, and successively, to produce chord progressions. The term is used descriptively to denote notes and chords so combined, and also prescriptively to denote a system of structural principles governing their combination. In the latter sense, harmony has its own body of theoretical [[literature]].
==Definitions==
1. Combination or adaptation of parts, elements, or related things, so as to form a consistent and orderly whole; agreement, accord, congruity.
pre-established harmony, in the philosophy of Leibnitz, a harmony between mind and matter, e.g. between the body and soul, established before their creation, whereby their actions correspond though no communication exists between them.
c1532 G. DU WES Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1058 Others have sayd that it [the operation of God] is a maner of armonie. 1597 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. V. xxxviii. §1 The soule it selfe by nature is, or hath in it, harmonie. 1605 BACON Adv. Learn. I. iv. §6 (1873) 32 The harmony of a science, supporting each part the other, is..the true and brief confutation..of all the smaller sort of objections. 1745 De Foe's Eng. Tradesman ii. (1841) I. 18 Here is a harmony of business, and everything exact. 1814 SOUTHEY Roderick XXI. 382 To heavenliest harmony Reduce the seeming chaos. 1847 LEWES Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 273 His [Leibnitz's] favourite hypothesis of a Pre-established Harmony (borrowed from Spinoza). 1860 TYNDALL Glac. II. xxiv. 353 Where other forces mingle with that of crystallization, this harmony of action is destroyed.
b. Phr. in harmony: in agreement or accordance, consistent, congruous. So out of harmony.
1816 KEATINGE Trav. (1817) I. 42 He may always be sure of finding nature in harmony with herself. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. II. 149 This mode of attack..was in perfect harmony with every part of his infamous life. 1853 MAURICE Proph. & Kings i. 11 The vox populi was the vox Dei even when the two voices seemed most utterly out of harmony.
2. Agreement of feeling or sentiment; peaceableness, concord.
1588 GREENE Pandosto (1843) 25 Coveting no other companion but sorrowe, nor no other harmonie but repentance. 1667 MILTON P.L. VIII. 605 Harmonie to behold in wedded pair More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare. 1780 COWPER Progr. Err. 140 Love, joy, and peace make harmony more meet. 1844 H. H. WILSON Brit. India III. 408 The harmony which had thus been re-established with the Court of Baroda.
==Historical definition==
==Historical definition==
