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Enharmonic

ENHARMON'IC

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Adj.
[from harmonic, harmony.] In music, an epithet applied to such species of composition, as proceed on very small intervals, or smaller intervals that the diatonic and chromatic. An enharmonic interval is the eighth of a tone.

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enharmonic

enharmonic

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Adjective

enharmonic (not comparable)

  1. (music) Describing two or more identical or almost identical notes that are written differently when in different keys. (Whether they are identical depends on the tuning method used.)
    C sharp is enharmonic to D flat.
  2. (music) Of or pertaining to a tetrachord

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