HARMONISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harmonisation mean? 

• HARMONISATION (noun)
  The noun HARMONISATION has 2 senses:

1. a piece of harmonized music

2. singing in harmony

  Familiarity information: HARMONISATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARMONISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of harmonized music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

harmonisation; harmonization

Hypernyms ("harmonisation" is a kind of...):

harmony; musical harmony (the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmonisation"):

reharmonisation; reharmonization (a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised)

Derivation:

harmonise (bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing)

harmonise (write a harmony for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Singing in harmony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

harmonisation; harmonization

Hypernyms ("harmonisation" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Derivation:

harmonise (bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing)

harmonise (sing or play in harmony)