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Harmony   /hˈɑrməni/   Listen
Harmony

noun
(pl. harmonies)
1.
Compatibility in opinion and action.  Synonym: harmoniousness.
2.
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords.  Synonym: musical harmony.
3.
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.  Synonyms: concord, concordance.
4.
Agreement of opinions.  Synonyms: concord, concordance.
5.
An agreeable sound property.



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"Harmony" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the first view of this noble edifice whose steeple towers up so gracefully and majestically. No doubt that examined in all its particular parts, one may also be struck with the disproportion that exists between them; the nave is not in harmony with the dimensions of the tower, the chancel and transept still less so: but although this want of uniformity may lessen the symmetry of the monument, the impression it at first produces is no less extraordinary. And besides, ...
— Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg • Anonymous
... that is to say, submitted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of phenomena; a harmony blending together all created things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one great whole ([Greek words]) animated by the breath of life. The most important result of a rational inquiry into nature is, therefore, ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... being taken from "Writing books" by Spanish and Italian writing masters. These writing masters often chose to show their skill by imitating type forms of letters with the pen, but though similar in the individual forms of the letters the written examples exhibit a freedom and harmony in composition impossible for type to equal, and therefore are immeasurably more interesting to the modern penman. Figure 61 illustrates a type form of minuscule which may be commended for study. Other examples of small letters by modern designers will be found ...
— Letters and Lettering - A Treatise With 200 Examples • Frank Chouteau Brown
... freedom, the unbroken arch of the sky. It is for ever fooling you, and yet you for ever pursue it. And then it is only to the eye that cannot do without green that the Karroo is unbeautiful. Every other colour meets others in harmony—tawny sand, silver-grey scrub, crimson-tufted flowers like heather, black ribs of rock, puce shoots of screes, violet mountains in the middle distance, blue fairy battlements guarding the horizon. ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... birds I am wide awake Tho' silent 'mid your tender harmony; And yet I would fain join your sweet concert, Whilst upon the face of fair Bianca, 'Mirror of Love'—I fix my ...
— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley


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