MUSICAL HARMONY

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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)