Harmonies
[hɑ:məniz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Harmony
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Examples
- These should be like the harmonies, simple and suitable to the occasion. Plato. The Republic.
- The explanation given in the text supposes the two harmonies to make up the number 8000. Plato. The Republic.
- Science has given to music the ardent devotion of a lover, and resolved a confused mass of more or less pleasant noises into liquid harmonies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And if our youth are to do their work in life, must they not make these graces and harmonies their perpetual aim? Plato. The Republic.
- And which are the harmonies expressive of sorrow? Plato. The Republic.
- The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like. Plato. The Republic.
- To say what these rhythms are will be your duty--you must teach me them, as you have already taught me the harmonies. Plato. The Republic.
- And which are the soft or drinking harmonies? Plato. The Republic.
- And these, he replied, are the Dorian and Phrygian harmonies of which I was just now speaking. Plato. The Republic.
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