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MUSICAL HARMONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
Synonyms:
harmony; musical harmony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("musical harmony" is a kind of...):
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical harmony"):
harmonisation; harmonization (a piece of harmonized music)
four-part harmony (harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines)
preparation ((music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord)
resolution ((music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord)
