Discord vs. Harmony — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Discord and Harmony
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Discord
Lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things.
Harmony
The study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords.
Discord
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
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.
Discord
A confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds.
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Harmony
An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole
Color harmony.
The order and harmony of the universe.
Discord
(Music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Harmony
A relationship in which various components exist together without destroying one another
Different kinds of fish living in harmony.
Discord
To fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
Harmony
A relationship characterized by a lack of conflict or by agreement, as of opinion or interest
Family harmony.
Discord
Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
Harmony
Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord.
Discord
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
Harmony
The structure of a work or passage as considered from the point of view of its chordal characteristics and relationships.
Discord
(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Harmony
A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.
Discord
Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
Harmony
A musical line that harmonically complements the melody
You sing the lead part, and I'll sing the harmony.
Discord
To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
Harmony
A collation of parallel passages, especially from the Gospels, with a commentary demonstrating their consonance and explaining their discrepancies.
Discord
To untie things which are connected by a cord.
Harmony
Agreement or accord.
Discord
Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; - applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
Harmony
A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
Discord
Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds m ing.
Harmony
(music) The academic study of chords.
Discord
To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
The one discording with the other.
Harmony
(music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
Discord
Lack of agreement or harmony
Harmony
(music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
Discord
Disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Harmony
A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
A harmony of the Gospels
Discord
A harsh mixture of sounds
Harmony
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.
Discord
Strife resulting from a lack of agreement
Harmony
Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
Discord
Be different from one another
Harmony
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.
Harmony
A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
Ten thousand harps, that tunedAngelic harmonies.
Harmony
See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Harmony
Compatibility in opinion and action
Harmony
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
Harmony
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
Harmony
Agreement of opinions
Harmony
An agreeable sound property
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