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xenharmonics

xenharmonics noun: xenharmonic music generally.

Noun

xenharmonics (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Xenharmonic music generally.
    • Why, I can't even call myself avant-garde or experimental these days because that does not imply escaping the 12-tone squirrelcage; so I had to introduce the term xenharmonics to mean something that SOUNDS different.1978 September, Ivor Darreg, “A Xenharmonist's Message to the Computer Musicians”, in Computer Music Journal, volume 2, number 2, The MIT Press

Questions about xenharmonics

What does xenharmonics mean?
Xenharmonics means xenharmonic music generally.
What part of speech is xenharmonics?
Xenharmonics is a noun.

Words near xenharmonics in the dictionary

  1. xenelasia
  2. xenelasy
  3. xenematide
  4. xenematides
  5. xenharmonic
  6. xenharmonics
  7. xenharmony
  8. xenia
  9. xenial
  10. xenias
  11. xenic

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