< A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
​HARMONIE, the French and German word for the wind instruments of the orchestra. Musique d'harmonie or Harmonie musik is music written for wind-band alone, such as Mendelssohn's overture in C, op. 24, Meyerbeer's Fackeltänze, etc. The origin of the term is not known.
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