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Harmonic   /hɑrmˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Harmonic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm.  Antonym: nonharmonic.
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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"Harmonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... appeal to the primitive passion for violence and blood which found expression in the operatic paraphrase of Victor Hugo's story, and the invitation which that passion extended to the modern musician suddenly emancipated from a lot of cumbersome formularies, and endowed with a mass of new harmonic and instrumental pigments with which to produce the startling contrasts and swift contradictions for which the new field ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... holds good of the violin—new works conceived only from the musical point of view bring about the stagnation of technical discovery, the invention of new passages, of novel harmonic wealth of combination is not encouraged. And a violinist owes it to himself to exploit the great possibilities of his own instrument. I have tried to find new technical ways and means of expression in my own compositions. For example, I have written a Divertiment for ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... distant from each other frequently perform the same song, and alternately change it, for hours together. While this harmonic correspondence continues, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages chaunt their couplets, the youth of both sexes listen with ...
— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry
... membrane, with the grain of air-bubbles tending outward therefrom—showing, no doubt, if one knew the mechanics of refrigeration, just how the freezing proceeded. Even in so humble a thing as a block of ice are these harmonic and lovely patterns, the seal of Nature's craft, inscrutable, inimitable. I might have made a point of this in talking to that free verse poet. I'm glad I didn't, however: he would have had some tedious reply, convincing to himself. That's the trouble with replies: they are always ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... entertainment. The worthy Cutts, the landlord of the Fielding's Head, generally occupied this post when not disabled by gout or other illness. His jolly appearance and fine voice may be remembered by some of my male readers: he used to sing profusely in the course of the harmonic meeting, and his songs were of what may be called the British Brandy-and-Water School of Song—such as 'The Good Old English Gentleman,' 'Dear Tom, this Brown Jug,' and so forth—songs in which pathos and hospitality are blended, and the praises ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray


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