Harmony is sustained through chords of two or more simultaneous notes
Evidence
Hearing harmony is basic to music appreciation, and in its basic form, harmony is sustained by means of chords. A chord consists of at least two notes sounding together, and it can be described in terms of the musical intervals between the individual notes that make it up. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 928
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines chord and harmony before the psychoacoustic treatment that follows.
Related
- A chord is defined by the intervals between its simultaneous notes (similarity 0.94)
- Individual harmonics relate to each other as musical intervals, not just numeric frequency ratios. (similarity 0.83)
- Harmonics are integer-related partials while partials need not be harmonic (similarity 0.80)
- Harmonics up to the seventh drive perceived consonance of complex-tone chords (similarity 0.79)
- Musical consonance comprises harmony and sensory consonance from separate domains (similarity 0.79)
- Chord dissonance rises as harmonic number increases and interval shrinks (similarity 0.79)
- Adjacent natural harmonics create smaller intervals as harmonic number increases. (similarity 0.79)
- Accurate square waves require infinitely many harmonics (similarity 0.78)
- Harmonic tones are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency (similarity 0.78)