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What does enharmonic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word enharmonic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  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.)
  2. (music) Of or pertaining to a tetrachord
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If the enharmonic C flat were used the chord would then be in its third inversion.
He desires to abolish temperament by additional keys, and has constructed an enharmonic organ with forty sounds in the octave.
It consisted of an air with variations, crowded with enharmonic passages.
These enharmonic passages recur to satiety, and the abuse of the plagal cadence deprives it of its religious solemnity.
Included is full notations with enharmonic chord symbols for more than 150 choruses of jazz blues lines in all 12 keys, using the whole register of the instrument.
You can see that his fondness for modulation by thirds and enharmonic shifts comes from French composers.

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