ABSTRACT
A French classical label established ca. 1959. The label both produces original recordings and distributes for a variety of other classical labels. It has home offices in France, and other major offices in Britain, Germany, the U.S., and Spain. The label emphasizes high sound quality and production values. As of 2002, it featured a mix of performers focusing primarily on early and Baroque music and contemporary classical compositions. Many of its artists have “crossed over” to more popular success, including groups like the Anonymous Four and Fretwork. The label also has sought to promote classical music to broader audiences through albums like Paul Hillier’s Home to Thanksgiving (HMX 2907264, 2002), an anthology drawn from his recordings for the label specifically devoted to material appropriate for giving “thanks and praise.” [Website: https://www.harmoniamondi.com/.]
Any frequency in the audio spectrum that is an integral multiple of a fundamental tone. A pure tone is one that contains nothing but the fundamental (such as the pitch of a tuning fork); it is said to have one harmonic, which is equal to the fundamental. Aside from pure tones, all musical sounds are composite tones, consisting of fundamentals and harmonics of higher frequency that they generate. Harmonics above the fundamental are called overtones; thus the first overtone is the second harmonic. The physical cause of the overtones is that vibrating bodies such as strings or pipes of air vibrate simultaneously as a whole and in sections of 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, etc., of their lengths.
