Harmonization
In music, harmonization is the chordal accompaniment to a line or melody: "Using chords and melodies together, making harmony by stacking scale tones as triads".[2]
A harmonized scale can be created by using each note of a musical scale as a root note for a chord and then by taking other tones within the scale building the rest of a chord.[3]
For example, using an Ionian (major scale)
- the root note would become the I major chord,
- the second note the ii minor chord,
- the third note the iii minor chord,
- the fourth note the IV major chord,
- the fifth note the V major chord (or even a dominant 7th),
- the sixth note the vi minor chord,
- the seventh note the vii diminished chord and
- the octave would be a I major chord.
Using the minor (aeolian mode) one would have:
- I minor,
- ii diminished,
- III major,
- iv minor,
- v minor,
- VI major,
- VII major and
- the i minor an octave higher.[4]
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