![]() ![]() ![]() Polyphony refers to a texture containing a number of independent melodic lines (or voices, if you like). Polyphony is a related, but quite different concept. (When writing arrangements I'll often mark parts as Melody, Harmony and Bass parts.) But, strictly speaking, all of these parts, accompanimental or not, define the overall harmony. However, the term harmony is often used informally to mean just this: parts of the musical texture that accompany a main melody part. It is important not to confuse the concepts of harmony and accompaniment harmony is not simply "padding" between the main melody (if there is one) and the bass part. Harmony can be thought of as the framework of pitch relationships between any number of simultaneous elements in a musical texture, be they: melody, bass-line, block chords, multiple melodic lines, counter-melodies etc. Also, a single line or two-part counterpoint can easily imply a series of chords containing three and four (or more!) note chords. The exception, mentioned above, is that even a single melodic line will create a series of implied harmonies: sometimes this is very obvious, for instance a series of arpeggios sometimes it is ambiguous, as the single line could suggest a number of harmonies. However, it also refers to the "horizontal" relationships between successive vertical relationships of pitches it's probably easiest to think of these as chord progressions. Harmony refers to the "vertical" relationship between simultaneous pitches in a musical texture (usually, but not always, chords - see below for the exception).
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