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Harmony vs. Dissonance — What's the Difference?

Harmony vs. Dissonance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Harmony and Dissonance

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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.

Dissonance

Lack of harmony among musical notes
A session full of jangling dissonances
An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles

Harmony

An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole
Color harmony.
The order and harmony of the universe.

Dissonance

A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.

Harmony

A relationship in which various components exist together without destroying one another
Different kinds of fish living in harmony.
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Dissonance

Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict
"In Vietnam, reality fell away and dissonance between claim and fact filled the void" (Michael Janeway).

Harmony

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

Dissonance

(Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.

Harmony

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

Dissonance

A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.

Harmony

Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord.

Dissonance

(music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.

Harmony

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

Dissonance

A state of disagreement or conflict.

Harmony

A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.

Dissonance

(countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.

Harmony

A musical line that harmonically complements the melody
You sing the lead part, and I'll sing the harmony.

Dissonance

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

Harmony

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

Dissonance

Want of agreement; incongruity.

Harmony

Agreement or accord.

Dissonance

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

Harmony

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

Dissonance

The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
Modern music is just noise to me

Harmony

(music) The academic study of chords.

Dissonance

Disagreeable sounds

Harmony

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

Harmony

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

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

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.

Harmony

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

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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