Harmony is the dimension of music that organizes simultaneous sounds — what happens when tones sound together. It governs the tension and resolution, the color and mood that give music its emotional depth. From Pythagorean consonance to Piazzolla’s jazz-inflected dissonances, harmony is the vertical architecture of musical expression.
Topics
This section is growing. Future topics may include:
- Intervals and consonance/dissonance
- Chords and chord progressions
- Tonality and key centers
- Modes (church modes, jazz modes, world scales)
- Voice leading and counterpoint
- Extended harmony (jazz, 20th-century)
- Harmonic rhythm
Related
- Music Theory — Parent topic
- Rhythm — Temporal dimension
- Melody — Horizontal dimension