When it comes to music, you can look at harmony as the use of chords or pitches simultaneously. The study behind harmony involves the study of chords and the way that they are constructed as well as harmonic progressions and the connection principles that are used in order to govern them. Harmony is regarded as a concept that refers to the vertical aspects of the world of music, distinguishing harmony from the horizontal aspect of music which is the melodic line. Understanding harmony in music is a vital part of understanding how to play music, as well as even simply to appreciate it.

Intervals

Intervals are the relationships that exist between two different musical pitches. As an example, in the popular melody "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", the melody's first two notes, making up the word twinkle, and the second two notes in the melody, making up the second word twinkle are both at a 1/5th interval. What this actually means is that if both of the first two notes were in the C pitch, then the second notes would be in the G pitch with a difference of four scale notes or a perfect fifth, seven chromatic notes apart.

Here are some common intervals:

• When the root is C, the major third is E, the minor third is Eb and the fifth is G.
• When the root is Db, the major third is F, the minor third is Fb and the fifth is Ab.
• When the root is D, the major third is F#, the minor third is F and the fifth is A.
• When the root is Eb, the major third is G, the minor third is Gb and the fifth is Bb.
• When the root is E, the major third is G#, the minor third is G and the fifth is B.
• When the root is F, the major third is A, the minor third is Ab and the fifth is C.
• When the root is F#, the major third is A#, the minor third is A and the fifth is C#.
• When the root is G, the major third is B, the minor third is Bb and the fifth is D.
• When the root is Ab, the major third is C, the minor third is Cb and the fifth is Eb.
• When the root is A, the major third is C#, the minor third is C and the fifth is E.
• When the root is Bb, the major third is D, the minor third is Db and the fifth is F.
• When the root is B, the major third is D#, the minor third is D and the fifth is F#.

What this means is that any combination of notes with specific intervals, making up a chord, is capable of creating harmony. In the musical scale, there are twelve different pitches. Each of these pitches is capable of being referred to as a degree of that scale. The names of the notes are insignificant, however their intervals are not.

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