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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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Tones in the chromatic or enharmonic modes were named by other letters, and the system was extremely complicated.
You can see that his fondness for modulation by thirds and enharmonic shifts comes from French composers.
The enharmonic, according to Ptolemy, had ceased to be employed.
Marchetto further provoked Prosdocimo's ire by applying traditional terms such as enharmonic, chromatic, and diatonic in unconventional ways to his newly defined intervals.
He never completely lost his fascination with Wagner, particularly Wagner's harmony, and it certainly comes out here in the many chromatic and enharmonic shifts.
It consisted of an air with variations, crowded with enharmonic passages.

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