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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.
These enharmonic passages recur to satiety, and the abuse of the plagal cadence deprives it of its religious solemnity.
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.
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.
If the enharmonic C flat were used the chord would then be in its third inversion.

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