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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]].

In [[music]], '''harmony''' is 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==

==Definitions==

1. Combination or adaptation of parts, elements, or related things, so as to form a consistent and orderly whole; agreement, accord, congruity.

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.

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.

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.