Dictionary of Music
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Enharmonic (Gr.), a term relating to sounds, which, according to the mathematical deter- minations of pitch, and also the notation, are different, but in musical practice are identical : for example, / and e sharp, b and c flat, etc.
The ancient Greeks, in addition to the diatonic and chromatic genera, had an enharmonic genuS in which the two middle notes of the tetra- chord, by lowering the upper one, were brought to the same pitch («, /, /, a) ; this, at any rate, was the oldest form of E. {O...lympos). A later E.
separated these tv?o identical notes, placed the third in the tetrachord at the distance of half a Enliarnioiiio 220 Enunciation of ■words in singing tone from the lowest, and gave to the second a middle pitch^ — (See Greek Music.) The i6th century, with its mania for everything Greek, revived the en- harmonic genus, and explanations of various kinds were attempted with regard to the same.
To these very small diiferences of pitch was given the name of enharmonic diesis (cf.
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Enharmonic (Gr.), a term relating to sounds, which, according to the mathematical deter- minations of pitch, and also the notation, are different, but in musical practice are identical : for example, / and e sharp, b and c flat, etc.
The ancient Greeks, in addition to the diatonic and chromatic genera, had an enharmonic genuS in which the two middle notes of the tetra- chord, by lowering the upper one, were brought to the same pitch («, /, /, a) ; this, at any rate, was the oldest form of E. {O...lympos). A later E.
separated these tv?o identical notes, placed the third in the tetrachord at the distance of half a Enliarnioiiio 220 Enunciation of ■words in singing tone from the lowest, and gave to the second a middle pitch^ — (See Greek Music.) The i6th century, with its mania for everything Greek, revived the en- harmonic genus, and explanations of various kinds were attempted with regard to the same.
To these very small diiferences of pitch was given the name of enharmonic diesis (cf.
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