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Definition of Accidentals
1. accidental [n] - See also: accidental
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accidentals
Literary usage of Accidentals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... they must be treated as genuine Cadences upon one of the Regular or Conceded
Modulations of the Mode in question, and the necessary accidentals must be ..."
2. The piano-forte primer by John Freckleton Burrowes (1823)
"Sixth and Seventh, as has been before remarked, are raised by Accidentals, in
the Ascending Scale. Why are the Sixth and Seventh Notes of the Ascending ..."
3. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"But no society is in both essentials and accidentals, good totally or totally bad.
It is a miscellany; its good and bad are mixed; they are either essential ..."
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