Harmony refers to the use of the notes of a musical scale to make chords In music and music theory a chord is a set of three or more different notes from a specific key that sound simultaneously. Most often, in European-influenced music, chords are tertian sonorities that can be constructed as stacks of thirds relative to some underlying scale. Two-note combinations are typically referred to as dyads or intervals. A. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chordal harmonic progressions A chord progression is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing (or contradicting) a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord and the principles of connection that govern them.[1] Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic line A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity. In its most literal sense a melody is a sequence of pitches and durations, while more figuratively the term has occasionally been extended to include successions of other musical elements such as tone color, or the "horizontal" aspect.[2] Counterpoint In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent. It has been most commonly identified in Western music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period, especially in Baroque music. The term originates from the which refers to the interweaving of melodic lines and polyphony In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony) which refers to the relationship of separate independent voices are thus sometimes distinguished from harmony.
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