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when separate things refuse to fight and accidentally make something gorgeous instead
means describing parts that fit and blend together pleasingly, whether sounds, colors, ideas, or relationships
from From Greek 'harmonia,' meaning a joining or fitting together — originally something concrete, like the careful jointing of planks in shipbuilding, related to 'harmos,' a joint or fastening. The word sailed into Latin and then Old French 'harmonie' before settling into English, picking up its musical sense along the way: notes that 'fit' the way well-fitted timbers do.
- music root
- From Greek harmonia, meaning a joining or fitting together
- physics
- Harmonious frequencies vibrate in whole-number ratios, hence pleasing chords
- not unison
- Harmony needs difference; identical notes just sound like one
- golden link
- Ancient Greeks tied harmony to proportion and the golden ratio
singapore multiracial society — 74% chinese, 13% malay, 9% indian coexisting with minimal ethnic conflict since 1965
basel school switzerland — johannes itten's color theory teaching method from 1916 based on visual harmony principles