Harmony  

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This page Harmony is part of the music series.
Illustration: Sheet music to "Buffalo Gals" (c. 1840), a traditional song.
Maxim: "writing about music is like dancing about architecture".

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1. agreement or accord
2. a pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds

Antonym

• Conflict
• Grotesque

See also

• Barbershop music
• Consonance and dissonance
• Chord (music)
• Chord sequence
• Chromatic chord
• Chromatic mediant
• Counterpoint
• Harmonic series
• Harmonized scale
• Homophony (music)
• List of musical terminology
• Mathematics of musical scales
• Musica universalis
• Peter Westergaard's tonal theory
• Prolongation
• Physics of music
• Tonality
• Unified field
• Voice leading