harmony
Sign in to savethumb|right|upright=1.35|Barbershop quartets, such as this US Navy Band ensemble, sing four-part pieces, made up of a [[melody line (normally the lead) and three harmony parts. ]] In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords, textures and tonalities are identified, defined, and categorized in the development of these theories. Harmony is broadly understood to involve both a
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# Overview of Harmony In music, harmony is the combination of different sounds—such as pitches or tones—occurring together to create new musical ideas, with chords and other harmonic elements working alongside a melody line. Theories of harmony help describe and explain the effects that result when these different sounds are combined, making it a foundational concept for understanding how music is structured and composed.
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- Etymology and definitions<span class="anchor" id="Greek_harmonia_anchor"></span>
- Historical rules
- Types
- Intervals
- Chords and tension
- Perception
- Tonal fusion
- Roughness
- Familiarity
- Neural correlates of harmony
- Consonance and dissonance in balance
- See also
- References
- Footnotes
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|upright=1.35|Barbershop quartets, such as this US Navy Band ensemble, sing four-part pieces, made up of a [[melody line (normally the lead) and three harmony parts. ]] In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords, textures and tonalities are identified, defined, and categorized in the development of these theories. Harmony is broadly understood to involve both a "vertical" dimension (frequency-space) and a "horizontal" dimension (time-space), and often overlaps with related musical concepts such as melody, timbre, and form.
A particular emphasis on harmony is one of the core concepts underlying the theory and practice of Western music. The study of harmony involves the juxtaposition of individual pitches to create chords, and in turn the juxtaposition of chords to create larger chord progressions. The principles of connection that govern these structures have been the subject of centuries worth of theoretical work and vernacular practice alike.