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While the notion “chord”
carries much more the
flavor of something solid, static, substantial, measurable; the
“harmony”
notion implies the aspect of the fluid, unsubstantial, immeasurable. We
may say chord is to harmony as body is to soul; or harmony is the soul
of the chord. It may suit the chord, the honeycomb frame of combined intervals,
to enter classification by measurements and mathematical symbols. If we
try to force harmony into such rigid objectivity, it escapes this compulsion
by a hundred loopholes.
Ernst Toch
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