: a series of the form {latex}1 + \\frac{1}{2} + \\frac{1}{3} + \\frac{1}{4} + \\frac{1}{5} + \\frac{1}{6} + \\dots{/latex}
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Recent Examples on the WebThe ending of the first movement makes clear Britten’s awareness of this aesthetic dichotomy, with a cello glissando ascent through the harmonic series, an acoustic phenomenon literally at the core of western ideas of musical consonance and harmony.San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022 This kind of series, based on successive reciprocal numbers, is known as a harmonic series.Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2016 Also called the Euler-Mascheroni constant, it is defined as the limiting difference between the natural logarithm the harmonic series. Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2016 At one point, the music seems to orbit around the natural harmonic series, and a drone appears at another. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018