harmonic progression
harmonic progression — noun
1. the way the chords in a song move from one to the next, which gives the music it
the way the chords in a song move from one to the next, which gives the music its sense of motion and mood.
Christopher taught his students how a simple harmonic progression can make a sad song feel hopeful.
harmonic progression as the chord-movement of a song
Henry noticed that three of his favourite pop songs share the same four-chord harmonic progression.
collocation: four-chord harmonic progression
The jazz pianist surprised the crowd by twisting a familiar harmonic progression into a tense, dark chord.
Beatrix hummed the melody while Rodrigo picked out its harmonic progression chord by chord on a guitar.
A gentle harmonic progression carried the choir slowly toward the final, warm-sounding chord.
- chord progression
the everyday songwriting term; near-identical and far more frequent in casual talk
- chord sequence
stresses the ordered list of chords rather than the feeling of motion
用法筆記
Common in music theory and songwriting. Often paired with a chord count (three-chord, four-chord) or with verbs like 'build', 'resolve', or 'follow'.
2. a row of numbers where, if you flip each one upside down into a fraction, the ne
a row of numbers where, if you flip each one upside down into a fraction, the new numbers go up or down by an equal step each time.
Tamar showed the class that 1, one-half, one-third, one-quarter forms a neat harmonic progression.
harmonic progression as a named number sequence
The math teacher asked Gita to find the next term in a short harmonic progression.
collocation: a term in a harmonic progression
Élise circled the fractions on the board to show how the harmonic progression keeps its hidden pattern.
On the whiteboard, Walid proved that the sum of this harmonic progression never reaches a fixed limit.
Aoi met a harmonic progression in physics class while measuring how a guitar string makes higher notes.
- harmonic sequence
the more common name in modern textbooks; same idea
- arithmetic progression
the related sequence the reciprocals themselves form
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this is a counting term, not a music term — the 'harmonic' here points to fractions, not chords. The reciprocals form an arithmetic progression.