Harmony vs. Melody

Harmonynoun

Agreement or accord.

Harmonynoun

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

Harmonynoun

(music) The academic study of chords.

Harmonynoun

(music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.

Harmonynoun

(music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.

Harmonynoun

A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

Harmonynoun

The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

Harmonynoun

Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.

Harmonynoun

A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.

Harmonynoun

A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

Harmonynoun

See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

Harmonynoun

compatibility in opinion and action

Harmonynoun

the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

Harmonynoun

a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole

Harmonynoun

agreement of opinions

Harmonynoun

an agreeable sound property

Harmony

Harmony, in music, is the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing. Usually, this means simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches (tones, notes), or chords.Harmony is a perceptual property of music, and along with melody, one of the building blocks of Western music.

Melodynoun

tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

Melodynoun

A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

Melodynoun

A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.

Melodynoun

The air or tune of a musical piece.

Melodynoun

a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

Melodynoun

the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes

Melody

Melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, ), also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color.