harmony
/ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ noun A2- Agreement or accord.
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- The academic study of chords.
- Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
Plural harmonies
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They arrived in about an hour at the cemetery; the weather was mild, but dull, and in harmony with the funeral ceremony.
When they arrived at the antechamber, above the door was visible a shield, which, by its rich ornaments and its harmony with the rest of the furniture, indicated the importance the owner attached to this blazon.
Bertuccio bowed, and as his wishes were in perfect harmony with the order he had received, he started the same evening.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.”
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