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Definition of Musical harmony
1. Noun. The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords.
Generic synonyms: Music
Specialized synonyms: Harmonisation, Harmonization, Four-part Harmony, Preparation, Resolution
Derivative terms: Harmonic, Harmonical, Harmonious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Harmony
Literary usage of Musical harmony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"These Partial Tones are Merely Repeated in Scales —And Chords—musical harmony
Results from Putting Together Notes Having Like Partial Effects—This True of ..."
2. Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... Twelve Colors—Rood's Summary of Combinations of Colors Founded on
Experience—Combinations Determined as in musical harmony by Ratios between the Numbers ..."
3. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative æsthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"... Form—How Manifested—Central-Point and Setting in Music—Parallelism and Musical
Harmony : Illustrations—Symmetry—Connection between Lines Radiating from ..."
4. The Musical World (1851)
"If Guido Aretino had had the Welsh harp to experiment with, his essays towards
musical harmony might have been successful ; but his instruments to ..."
5. Albert Brisbane by Albert Brisbane (1893)
"Nature's distribution as that which reigns in the distribution of sounds in a
complex musical harmony. I went to Paris to study musical harmony, ..."
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