harmonically
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- adverb
- /hɑːrˈmɒnɪkli/
- Specialized
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armónicamente
- It's usually assumed that much Western medieval music was harmonically 'simple' (having few key changes) because composers hadn't yet evolved the use of complex harmonies.
- melodically and harmonically
- harmonically complex
And I use the diminish there to give it a little bit of movement harmonically.
- And I use the diminish there to give it a little bit of movement harmonically.
- So here's what happens is a lot of times and in the mode, if you play all the notes, it's it's just not harmonically focused.
- So you can see that really it's actually going back and forth harmonically.
- And so if you focus on one of the point here, it's going to be going up and down harmonically.
Examples
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This does not need to be, nor should it be, complex; by simply choosing one or two notes and aligning them harmonically, students are making deliberate creative decisions.
Academic text (2015) -
Because most students develop the ability to hear and sing harmonically between the ages of nine and thirteen, teachers tend to introduce part singing in the upper elementary grades.
Academic text (1997) -
So here's what happens is a lot of times and in the mode, if you play all the notes, it's it's just not harmonically focused.
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As varied as the media are, the narratives play in two consistent, if harmonically different, keys.
Blog text (20) -
Faster and faster they went: low notes and high notes, harmonically spinning variations of sun, song, and flower-scented imagination.
Fiction book (1995) -
Doing so in an embodied fashion might include singing or playing one song over another to see if they match harmonically and melodically.
Academic text (2015) -
Canons are more appropriate for upper elementary students because they are melodically and harmonically more challenging than other types of polyphony.
Academic text (1997) -
Even much of the folk music in the Anglo tradition contains elements such as diatonic sequences and harmonically directed melodies that Kodály appears to have made a conscious effort to avoid in his own pedagogical materials.
Academic text (1997) -
Many of the pop songs—including R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts"—were sung in Italian, in harmonically unadventurous arrangements of sober rhythms and yearning strings.
Blog text (23) -
The song uses harmonically rich chords that create a beautiful sound.
How Harmonious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Harmonically comes from the common word harmony and the verb harmonize, which come from the Greek harmonia meaning 'joining' or 'fitting together'. So to do something harmonically is to do it in a way that 'fits together' and sounds pleasant, especially in music.