Definition of enharmonic
: of, relating to, or being notes that are written differently (such as A flat and G sharp) but sound the same in the tempered scale
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Aural anticipation of solid resolution instead opens out as the grammar reorients around the enharmonic change of perspective.
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Such enharmonic transfers often are incorporated into dominant-seventh chords, among the more unstable harmonies in traditional tonal practice.
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Even more beguiling is Harris’s use of enharmonic tones — exploiting how the same pitch can be notated as, say, G-flat or F-sharp, with different harmonic implications for each.
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Coltrane’s playing has always been aggressive and jarring, but the dissonance and enharmonic experimentation on Interstellar Space is otherworldly.
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Both Thundercat’s 2011 album The Golden Age of the Apocalypse and his 2017 album Drunk take Coltrane-scale work and melt it into puddles of enharmonic bliss with profound authority.
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Origin and Etymology of enharmonic
French enharmonique, from Middle French, of a scale employing quarter tones, from Greek enarmonios, from en in + harmonia harmony, scale
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