Harmony
(har-MAH-nee)


  1. The concordant (or consonant) combination of notes sounded simultaneously to produce chords.
  2. Countermelodic notes to accompany a tune.


SUGGESTED LISTENING EXAMPLES:

Harmony, Baroque:
Purcell: Come, ye Sons of Art, come away, "Chaconne"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 55
Bach: Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, BWV 140, "Er kommt, er kommt"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 59
Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 (opening of the fugue)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 17

Harmony: Classical:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, II (piano entrance)

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 4
Beethoven: Serenade in D major, Op. 8, I
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 28
Haydn: The Creation, "Achieved is the glorious work"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 7

Harmony, Impressionist:
Debussy: Pelléas et Melisande, Act I, Scene 3

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 36
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (closing section of the ballet)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 37

Harmony, Medieval:
Organum: Tu patris sempiternus et filius (three excerpts)

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 38
Machaut: Nesque on porroit les estoiles nombrer
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 39

Harmony, Renaissance:
Josquin Desprez: El Grillo

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 41
Palestrina: Missa in Festis Apostolorum I, "Agnus Dei"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 42

Harmony, Romantic:
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 29
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, III
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 7
Chopin: Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 16
Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 13

Harmony, 20th century:
Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25, I

W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 40
Glass: The Photographer, for Violin, Chorus, and Instruments, "A Gentleman's Honor"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 75
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, III
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 3, Track 41

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