The OED describes this as a ‘skilful and harmonious adaptation or fitting together of parts; harmony, congruity, consistency’.  The adjective is  ‘concinnous’.

‘Which he analysed, showing the concinnity of the parts …’

 

Source: John Drury, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (London: Penguin Books, 2014), p. 6

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