Word Finder - harmonies

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Agreement or accord.

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A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

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The academic study of chords.

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Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.

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The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.

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A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

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a harmony of the Gospels

Our world is but one of an infinite number of others, and all the harmonies and adaptations of the universe are regarded as a special case of the infinite possibilities of mechanical events.

He believes that he is once more with Briinnhilde on the Valkyries' mountain height; and the harmonies of her awakening move in untroubled splendour till the light of life fades with the light of day and the slain hero is carried to the Gibichung's hall through the moonlit mists, while the music of love and death tells in terrible triumph more of his story than he ever knew.

Music is a part of moral education; and for this end we should use the most moral harmonies.

Debussy has this in common with Strauss, that he too regards harmonies as pure physical sensations; but he differs from Strauss firstly in systematically refusing to regard them as anything else, and secondly in his extreme sensibility to harshness.

The four volumes of the Meditations, the Harmonies and the Recueillements, which contained the prime of his verse, are perhaps the most monotonous reading to be found anywhere in work of equal bulk by a poet of equal talent.

But the main purport of the treatise was the exposition of an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the various and varying velocities of the several planets, of which the sentient soul animating the sun was the solitary auditor.

What visions beyond there may be, what larger hopes,what ultimate harmonies, if such there are in store, will come in God's good time; it is not for us to anticipate them, or lift the veil where God has left it down" (The Christian View of God and the World, 18 93, p. 397).

The first volume published of his posthumous works was the exquisite and splendid Thedtre en liberte, a sequence if not a symphony of seven poems in dramatic form, tragic or comic or fanciful eclogues, incomparable with the work of any other man but the author of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in combination and alternation of gayer and of graver harmonies.

He closed his eyes, and, from all sides as if from a distance, sounds fluttered, grew into harmonies, separated, blended, and again all mingled into the same sweet and solemn hymn.

There isn't a weakness in this group as Mini plays a mean bongo and contributes some stunning harmonies.

The seriousness of the songs are honey coated in sweet harmonies and singalong choruses, but don't let that fool you.

This is brooding music, often slow, taking time to unfold, embracing extreme dissonance as well as tender, diatonic harmonies.

The band are good, ' Wolves ' like a Tom Waits with tribal drums and howling harmonies.

The lyrics and harmonies are always very moving, funny and wonderful.

My Favorite is the title track, pure adrenaline rush, best male harmonies I've heard on a rock track.

Tenderly sung with gentle harmonies and a bouncy upbeat tempo ensures the album is worms a way into your heart.

The non-specific pitch indication was also used with a specific rhythmic notation to achieve rhythmic unisons within ' improvised ' tonalities and harmonies.

Harmonies were enriched with altered 9th, 11th or 13th chords, and the soloist's lines were based on these chordal voicings.

My Favorite is the title track, pure adrenaline rush, best male harmonies I 've heard on a rock track.

This is a beautifully sculpted piece with subdued vocal harmonies over some wonderful spacey keyboards, tinkling ivories and pure sweet guitar sounds.

Harmonies were enriched with altered 9th, 11th or 13th chords, and the soloist 's lines were based on these chordal voicings.

His music reflected the subtle harmonies of jazz set to a Latin samba rhythm.

Antonio Carlos Jobim's unique combination of musical elements, with its whispery flowing melodies, pleasing jazz harmonies, and unmistakable Latin rhythms was named Bossa Nova, meaning New Wave.

An unashamed lover of the Beatles, Lynne's lush harmonies, layered production techniques, catchy guitar riffs, and sweet as candy melodies fuelled some of the best power-pop music ever recorded.

The chord structures are often straight ahead and the melodies are ripe for singing harmonies.

Part heavy metal, part acoustic and full of dark and sometimes eerie harmonies, the band straddled a unique line that made them difficult to classify.

Create dramatic harmonies that sound remarkably like a movie soundtrack with Lumiloop.

The Be Good Tanya bring fetching pop harmonies to traditional country themes in a way that is utterly new and exciting, yet as old as the hills at the same time.

Bouncing melodies, smooth harmonies and great dance beats all provide the perfect backdrop for the High School Musical 2 lyrics.

Reflecting the rawer, more garage inspired feel of the band's earlier sound, The Bucket featured tight harmonies, a driving beat, and plenty of fuzzy guitars.

The Harmonies poetiques et religieuses appeared in 1829, when he had left Florence.

The long-lived conception of a series of crystal spheres, acting as the vehicles of the heavenly bodies, and attuned to divine harmonies, seems to have originated with Pythagoras himself.