Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

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
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder
Examples
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 desires to abolish temperament by additional keys, and has constructed an enharmonic organ with forty sounds in the octave.
Some 16th-century composers evidently favoured the enharmonic advantages of the system.
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.
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.

See Also

Nearby Definitions
10-letter Words Starting With
Find Definitions
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2025