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Discord vs. Harmony — What's the Difference?

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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