Agreement vs. Harmony — What's the Difference?

Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling

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.

The act of agreeing

An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole

Harmony of opinion; accord

A relationship in which various components exist together without destroying one another

An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.

A relationship characterized by a lack of conflict or by agreement, as of opinion or interest

A properly executed and legally binding contract.

The study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords.

The writing or document embodying this contract.

Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord.

(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.

The structure of a work or passage as considered from the point of view of its chordal characteristics and relationships.

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

A musical line that harmonically complements the melody

A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

A collation of parallel passages, especially from the Gospels, with a commentary demonstrating their consonance and explaining their discrepancies.

Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

Agreement or accord.

An agreeable quality.

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.

(music) The academic study of chords.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

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

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

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

The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

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

Compatibility of observations;

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.

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;

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

The thing arranged or agreed to;

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.

The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

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

The verbal act of agreeing

See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

Compatibility in opinion and action

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

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

Agreement of opinions

An agreeable sound property