Definition Essay: How Do We Live In Harmony?

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“Harmony is a beautiful balance between mind, body and soul measured in tender peaceful moments.” (qtd. Melanie Koulouris) We all live in harmony everyday, sometimes you don’t even realize that you are involved in Harmony. The definition of Harmony for music is; is the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progression having a pleasing effect. What that is, is all the notes from the music are working together to create harmony. They are compatible they don’t clash with each other they all sound perfect together. The definition of Harmony for everyday people is; agreement or concord. Now what that means is that everyone agrees with each other there is no conflict everyone is in unison. (1)

So how do you know that we live in Harmony with each other and the things around us?
We are surrounded by harmony everywhere we go, by the music that we listen to, and talking to our friends. “Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.” (qtd. Stephen) We interact with harmony in so many ways that we didn’t think were possible, or we didn’t even know that we were. Harmony is being friendly and not being hurtful. If you and another person are arguing or fighting that is not harmony because you are not getting along.
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Harmony in a way is compared to 2 different things, and sometimes compares them both together. 1 is how we act around others, and the other is how it takes a place in our musical environments. Harmony has had a big impact on our lives, because it has a lot of influence on the music we play or listen to, as well it also influences how we act towards others. If we don’t agree with someone we might not get along with them very good and we won’t have a good harmony with them. But if we agree with them or even get along with them the harmony will between each other will be

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