[Doug]

Good post, Carol. I'm waiting to hear responses as well. I like the fact that you link vocal harmonies with chords - something that's kind of obvious when you think about it but they're often thought of as different. It kind of gives a different perspective to chord voicings if you were to think of it in terms of a Barber Shop quintet doing it. Or maybe an organ playing each note separately until they blend into a harmonious chord. Or notes fluctuating in and out of a chord.
The music that I love to play is always based on harmonies of notes (although I really don't know what I'm doing from theory perspective). Most of the time I spend noodling is in combining notes in different ways.