four-part harmony

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   harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines

   Broaderharmony

Questions about four-part harmony

What does four-part harmony mean?

four-part harmony means "harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines".

Is four-part harmony a common word?

four-part harmony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.