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Definition of Four-part harmony
1. Noun. Harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-part Harmony
Literary usage of Four-part harmony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint by Percy Goetschius (1910)
"four-part harmony. 220. The fundamental harmonic conditions are not ... The chief
difference between three-part and four-part harmony is that in the latter ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a composition in four- part harmony, the principal part being sung and the
others generally played on instruments. Another form of composition, ..."
3. A Treatise on Harmony: With Exercises by Joseph Humfrey Anger (1912)
"In the case of music for the piano, however, two-part harmony, by the use of
arpeggios, may be treated and regarded as skeleton four-part harmony, ..."
4. Practical Harmony: A Systematic Course in Fifty-four Lessons, with Numerous by Ludwig Bussler (1896)
"four-part harmony. A triad may be changed into a chord of four parts by doubling
one of its parts. ' BULE : The doubling of the third of a triad is to be ..."
5. Manual of Harmony: A Practical Guide to Its Study Prepared Especially for by Ernst Friedrich Richter, Alfred Richter (1912)
"As a rule, the Fifth may be left out (as has already been done in four-part
harmony), and, in many cases, the root also; the Third, being the characteristic ..."
6. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"... three (or even to two), the omission of certain chord-intervals is unavoidable,
and duplications are less common than in regular four-part harmony. 430. ..."
7. Counterpoint Simplified: A Text-book in Simple Strict Counterpoint by Francis Lodowick York (1907)
"Four-Part Counterpoint in the First Species differs little from simple four-part
Harmony. Only the chords already given, however, may be used and each voice ..."
8. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas (1891)
"Other similar collections, in four-part harmony, by the best composers of the
... The manner of singing these little master-pieces nf four-part harmony was ..."
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