harmony
has definitions from the fields of music,fine art
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[ noun ] compatibility in opinion and action
Synonyms Used in print (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)The market was not far and , once there , the doctor 's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a state of harmony with the birds around him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
Synonyms Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people : `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom , but at_the_same_time I have by_no_means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody . That Prokofieff 's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears , may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe . In all his miscalculations , Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers ' inspirations - representing many peoples , time_periods and styles - into his own music by warping the harmony , melody , or form , to verify his own experiments . Related terms music resolution four-part_harmony preparation harmonization |
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[ noun ] a harmonious state of things and their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
Synonyms Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)As Yinger has pointed_out , the `` reliance on symbols , on tradition , on sacred_writings , on the cultivation of emotional feelings of identity and harmony with sacred values , turns one to the past far more than to the future '' . |
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[ noun ] agreement of opinions
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2229
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[ noun ] (music) an agreeable sound property
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