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Harmonic   /hɑrmˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Harmonic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm.
2.
Of or relating to harmonics.
3.
Of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds.
4.
Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body.  Synonym: sympathetic.
5.
Involving or characterized by harmony.  Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized.
noun
1.
A tone that is a component of a complex sound.
2.
Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental.



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... profound indebtedness which makes a great man attain his truest originality; and Gluck's training practically deprived him of Bach's direct influence, useful as that would have been to the attainment of his aims in harmonic and choral expression. The indirect influence no one could escape, for whatever in modern music is not traceable to Sebastian Bach is traceable to his sons, who were encouraged by their father in the cultivation of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... interpretation have been developed in connection with the courses in practical music. The first-year class, meeting once a week, listens to an anonymous musical selection played by one of its members, and must decide by internal evidence—such as simple cadences, harmonic figuration as applied to the accompaniment and other characteristics—upon the school of the composer, and biographical data. The analysis of the musical selection and the reasons for her decision are set down ...
— The Story of Wellesley • Florence Converse
... conceived in a way that reduces their manifoldness to simplicity. Our pleasure at finding that a chaos of facts is the expression of a single underlying fact is like the relief of the musician at resolving a confused mass of sound into melodic or harmonic order. The simplified result is handled with far less mental effort than the original data; and a philosophic conception of nature is thus in no metaphorical sense a labor-saving contrivance. The passion for parsimony, for economy of means in thought, is the philosophic passion par excellence; ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... made a queerer or a better combination. For it was in the Barnard laboratory that I met Prof. Darmstetter; and it was my bearing, my unending practice of the West Point setting-up drill, my Delsarte, my "harmonic poise" and evident health that ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... The harmonic constants for these places will be given in a paper on Arctic Tides about to be issued by ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary


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