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Definition of Enharmonic
1. a. Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.
Definition of Enharmonic
1. Adjective. (music) Describing two or more identical notes that are written differently when in different keys ¹
2. Adjective. (music) Of or pertaining to a tetrachord ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enharmonic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enharmonic
Literary usage of Enharmonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"As harder things will always give way to easier ones, so did the enharmonic pass
away before the bold and simple diatonic song. The Greek enharmonic divided ..."
2. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1897)
"Charles R. Cross, an enharmonic organ owned by Mr. Frank Alley of Newbury- port,
Mass., the completion of which, many years ago, crowned with happiness a ..."
3. Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice by Arthur Foote, Walter Raymond Spalding (1905)
"In these last examples also we have enharmonic changes. enharmonic notation
results from the tact that we can write notes as sharps, flats, naturals, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"3), where passage is made from Eb to С is consistent enough for illustration:—
ll, 4-t—l The third class, called enharmonic, which tends to be more and more ..."
5. Extempore Playing: Forty Lessons in the Art of Keyboard Composing by Alfred Madeley Richardson (1922)
""enharmonic," therefore, means to us not change of pitch but change of tendency.
In general a raised note ascends, a lowered one descends. ..."
6. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"The application of these exchanges in enharmonic modulations is made as ...
By means of this enharmonic exchange, a modulation may be made, in other words, ..."
7. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"Here our path lies through four alterations, since in F minor there are four
flats.1 The enharmonic change is, in a sense, an extension of the preceding. ..."
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