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harmony noun [ ˈhɑːməni ]

• the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect.
• "the piece owes its air of tranquillity largely to the harmony"
Similar: euphony, polyphony, consonance, tunefulness, melodiousness, mellifluousness, mellifluence,
Opposite: dissonance,
• an arrangement of the four Gospels, or of any parallel narratives, which presents a single continuous narrative text.
Origin: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin harmonia ‘joining, concord’, from Greek, from harmos ‘joint’.


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