The etymology of harmony derives from the Greek "ἁρμονία" means " adjustment", " combination " with the Latin " harmonia " comes from " armos " which is "to join ", " shoulders ". The harmony has different meanings that are music and non - musical that are linked together in some ways. However, harmony is similar to supplying the various parts of a whole, in which its result always establishes relationships between various things.
The harmony in music is a standard that studies the appreciation of the sound so vertically or simultaneously as consonant to cover correspondence with its scope. The study of harmony presents two interpretations, which is the descriptive study, which is a type of methodology applied to diminish a good or event that is being presented, and the prescriptive study is the one that aims to benefit a diversity of philology and grammar.
The teaching of harmony only explains the correspondence with Western music, in which the Western culture that acquires a polyphonic music, this means that it is a music in which the various musical notes can be played in a simultaneous and coordinated manner., but the study of harmony may have some scientific basis, where the regulations or descriptions of harmony are the appearances of rhythm and music.
In musical scholasticism, the counterpoint that is the musical composition technique that evaluates the relationship between two or more independent voices, which is a complementary specialty to harmony, but focuses more on the performance of melodies that are combinable with simultaneity than on the consonants result from such a composition.
