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2022-08-23 

(151219-1) ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด H - Harmony & melody & tune

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 Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/683606

 

Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Harmony = ‘HAHR-muh-nee’

ออกเสียง Melody = ‘MEL-uh-dee’

ออกเสียง Tune = ‘TYOON

ออกเสียง Malady = ‘MAL-uh-dee’


Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Harmony & melody & tune

Each of these words refers to musical sound.

Melody is the rhythmical relation 

of successive sounds that combine to make a tune.

A tune is a series of sounds forming an air.

Harmony and melody are two of three basic elements 

of most Western music (the third element is rhythm).


Example:

“In this orchestra there is complete harmony 

between the brass section and the violins.”

“Gene sang a tuneful melody while he showered.”

“The only tune be could play was ‘On, Wisconsin.’”

 

The adjectives melodious and tuneful are synonymous 

in their meaning of

forming a pleasing succession of sounds,”

“agreeable to hear.


Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR HARMONY

Harmony, melody in music 

suggest a combination of sounds

from voices or musical instruments.

Harmony is the blending of simultaneous sounds

of different pitch or quality, making chords:

 

harmony in part singing; 

harmony between violins and horns.


Melody is the rhythmical combination 

of successive sounds of various pitch

making up the tune or air:

a tuneful melody to accompany cheerful words.


HISTORICAL USAGE OF HARMONY

Harmony comes into English via Latin harmonia 

“conjunction, agreement among the various parts of the body

(in an explanation of the nature of the soul).”

 

Harmonia comes from Greek harmonía, 

which has all of the Latin meanings 

as well as many technical ones, 

e.g., in music, “octave, mode, pitch (of the voice)”;

in philosophy, “framework of the universe, principle of union,”

and in the Pythagorean system

the name of the number “three”

in medicine, anatomy, and physiology

“suture, union, temperament”;

in law and government

“order, good order, settled arrangement, covenant, agreement.”


Harmoní a ultimately derives from 

the very complicated Proto-Indo-European root ar-, 

(a)re-, rē-, ṛ- (with still more variants) “to fit, fit together, join.”


Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

melody

= musical sounds; harmony; tune; song

Not to be confused with:

malady  = illness; affliction; complaint:

He had a chronic malady that sapped all of his energy.;

any undesirable or disordered condition: 

a social malady


Farlex Trivia Dictionary.

Melody = grace note 

- An extra note for embellishment, 

not necessary for the harmony or melody.

absolute music, abstract musicpure music

 - Absolute music (abstract music, pure music) 

is music for its own sake

—concerned only with structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm.

 

air - An expressive succession of musical sounds

—a melody or tune.

melody - From Greek melos, "song," 

its early sense was "sweet music."