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agreement made audible, the math of voices refusing to step on each other
means The pleasing combination of different musical notes sounded together, or by extension any agreeable arrangement of parts into a peaceful, balanced whole.
from From Greek 'harmonia,' meaning a joining, fitting, or agreement — literally the way pieces are fastened together. The root verb 'harmozein' meant to fit or join, the same notion a carpenter has when two planks meet flush. The Greeks used it for the tuning of a lyre and for the orderly fit of the cosmos alike, then it passed through Latin 'harmonia' and Old French into English, carrying its sense of well-joined parts the whole way.
- overtone roots
- Harmony emerges from frequency ratios hidden in single notes
- dissonance ages
- Chords once banned as evil now sound perfectly sweet
- barbershop ring
- Tight chords create phantom notes nobody actually sings
- close calls
- Slightly mistuned tones beat against each other audibly
the beatles — liverpool band whose vocal harmonies on albums like rubber soul (1965) defined pop music
lions mane mushroom — fungus that grows on dead logs in north america and asia, with cascading white tendrils
geneva conventions — four international treaties (1949) establishing rules for humanitarian treatment in conflict