#harmony
- Adapted — Having been modified, adjusted, or reconfigured to fit new conditions, requirements, or specific circumstances; existing in a state of functional or behavioral harmony with its surrounding environment. In a psychological and social sense, it describes an individual who has successfully integrated into the norms and values of a community, overcoming initial accommodation barriers.
- Ais — A specialized technical term utilized in Western music theory that denotes the note A raised by a chromatic semitone using a sharp (A-sharp); it also represents the exact acoustic frequency or the corresponding key for this sound on keyboard instruments. Within structural and harmonic contexts, the word serves in solfeggio and composition as a component part of complex scales, chords, or melodic intervals, being enharmonically equivalent to the note B-flat, but possessing a completely different syntactic function within tonality.
- Alliterative — Pertaining to alliteration, based on the symmetrical repetition of consonants or sound clusters; characterized by consonantal harmony designed to increase textual musicality. In structural analysis, it describes a device or text built around this type of phonetic correlation.
- Altaic — Pertaining to the Altai Mountains, their surrounding regions, or the indigenous populations of this zone in Central Asia. In linguistics, it describes a hypothetical macro-family of languages (Altaic languages) that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic subfamilies, structurally characterized by agglutination and vowel harmony.
- Apollonian — Pertaining to or relating to the god Apollo in Greco-Roman mythology; instituted in honor of Apollo. In philosophy of culture and modern aesthetics (specifically theorized by Nietzsche), the term describes an attitude characterized by harmony, order, balance, rational clarity, and structural measure, standing in direct opposition to the Dionysian spirit based on ecstasy, passion, and chaos.
- Apollonian — Pertaining to or relating to the god Apollo in Greco-Roman mythology; characterized by harmony, balance, rational clarity, measure, and formal perfection. In philosophy of culture (essentially theorized by Friedrich Nietzsche), the term describes the tendency toward order, the logic of individualization, and plastic structural beauty, serving as the perfect antonym to the Dionysian spirit based on ecstasy, chaos, and mystical fusion.
- Apollonianism — An aesthetic, philosophical, or existential attitude characterized by the exclusive adoption of the Apollonian spirit; the structural predilection for harmony, proportion, rational rigor, and emotional control in art and life. The concept denotes the value system that places formal architectural beauty above instinctual or passionate experiences.
- Harmony — A perfect blending, just and proportionate combination of diverse elements tending towards a unitary, balanced, and aesthetic whole. In music, it represents the study of chords and their logical succession, governed by acoustic and aesthetic laws, while figuratively it denotes a state of complete understanding, peace, concord, and absence of conflict within a group.
- Female harmonist — A woman who specializes in the study, teaching, or practical application of the laws of musical harmony; a composer or theorist focused on chord progressions. Broadly, it also denotes a female proponent of the philosophical or social doctrine of harmonism, emphasizing structural balance and peaceful concord.
- Harmonistic — Pertaining to harmony or harmonists; regarding the rules and techniques of simultaneously combining sounds or structural elements. This relational adjective describes phenomena, treatises, exercises, or compositional styles analyzed strictly through chordal organization.
- Arpeggio — A musical chord whose constituent notes are played successively and distinctly, in ascending or descending order, rather than being heard simultaneously. It represents a fundamental element in instrumental technique study and the construction of melodic lines or accompaniments, frequently used in classical, jazz, rock, and electronic music to add motion and texture to the composition.
- To arpeggiate — To execute the notes of a musical chord successively and distinctly, in an ascending or descending order, instead of playing them simultaneously. This action is frequently used by pianists, guitarists, and harpists to create fluid melodic textures, fragment static harmony, or add a dynamic and dramatic effect to the performed musical pieces.
- Arpeggiated — Regarding chords or musical fragments: executed by emitting the component notes successively and distinctly, in ascending or descending order, modeled after the harp technique; also describes a melodic line structured on successive arpeggios.
- Arpegio — An alternative or partially unadapted spelling variant of the term 'arpegiu' or 'arpeggio', designating the successive and distinct execution of a musical chord's notes in ascending or descending order. It is frequently utilized in instrumental technical manuals to describe repetitive digital training patterns on the piano or guitar.
- Arpeggio — The successive and distinct execution of a musical chord's notes in ascending or descending order, instead of playing them simultaneously; a broken chord modeled after the specific harp technique. It represents a basic structural pattern in composition, jazz, and instrumental technique study for piano, violin, or guitar, serving to fluidize the melodic line and enrich the harmonic texture.
- Assonance — A sound figure of speech and prosodic device consisting of the repetition of the same stressed vowel in two or more words within a verse or sentence; an imperfect rhyme characteristic of folk and modern poetry, where the final words share identical vowels starting from the last stressed syllable, but the consonants differ, generating a subtle auditory harmony.
- Matching — The act of matching or coordinating and its result; the pairing, harmonious combination, or selective choice of objects, colors, materials, or culinary dishes that suit each other from an aesthetic, qualitative, chromatic, or gustatory standpoint to form a unified ensemble.
- Harmonic alignment — The act of resonating harmoniously and its result; a psychological, intellectual, or acoustic process through which a deep resonance and harmonic alignment are established between two concepts, values, ideas, or inner states. It represents a structural phenomenon of absolute consonance and complementarity where distinct elements vibrate in unison.
- Structural harmony — The state of being in full resonance or conceptual harmony; the structural quality of a set of ideas, values, or sounds to exist in perfect resonance, free of dissonance. It represents an ideal principle of semantic alignment and inner balance.
- Atonality — The property or character of a musical system or composition of being atonal; the conscious and structural absence of a traditional key, of functional hierarchy among scale degrees, and of a stable polar center (the tonic). In 20th-century avant-garde musical aesthetics, atonality represents the state of total emancipation of dissonance, granting each chromatic note perfectly equal architectural weight.