nonharmonic tone
1nonharmonic tone — /non hahr mon ik, non /, Music. a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone. [NON + HARMONIC] * * * …
2nonharmonic tone — /non hahr mon ik, non /, Music. a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone. [NON + HARMONIC] …
3Nonchord tone — Example of nonchord tones (in red)  Play (help· …
4auxiliary tone — noun or auxiliary note : an unaccented nonharmonic tone approached from above or below by stepwise motion and returning to the original tone * * * Music. a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning… …
5passing tone — noun a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes • Syn: ↑passing note • Hypernyms: ↑note, ↑musical note, ↑tone * * * noun see passing note * * * passing tone …
6Cambiata — Cambiata, or nota cambiata (Italian for changed note), has a number of different and related meanings. Generally it refers to a pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting where a note is skipped from in one direction …
7passing note — noun Date: 1730 a nonharmonic tone interposed between essential harmonic tones of adjacent chords called also passing tone …
8sound — sound1 soundable, adj. /sownd/, n. 1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium. 2. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a… …
9Sound — /sownd/, n. The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 mi. (140 km) long; 3 30 mi. (5 48 km) wide. Swedish and Danish, Oresund. * * * I Mechanical disturbance that propagates as a longitudinal wave… …
10overtone — /oh veuhr tohn /, n. 1. Music. an acoustical frequency that is higher in frequency than the fundamental. 2. an additional, usually subsidiary and implicit meaning or quality: an aesthetic theory with definite political overtones. [1865 70; trans …
