misharmonized

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adjective

Failing to harmonize; discordant.

Scrabble 30

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adjectivemisharmonized (comparative more misharmonized, superlative most misharmonized)

comparative more misharmonized · superlative most misharmonized

  1. Failing to harmonize; discordant.

    In addition to the use of the unusual progressions noted earlier, ^3 (C♯) is “misharmonized” in several important ways.

    2018, Laurel Parsons, Brenda Ravenscroft, Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers
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    He writes that the C in the bass “replaces a chord so longed for, and so painstakingly prepared over the previous few measures ... the actual granting of the tonic pitch in the melody intensifies the disappointment, for we actually hear the note we seek , but misharmonized.

    2011, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy - Volumes 25-26, page 27

    Furthermore many forms of industrial chronic and degenerative illness are thought to be the result from the effects of misharmonized vibration in the human body.

    2018, Dickson Thom, James Paul Maffitt Odell, Jeoffrey Drobot, Bioregulatory Medicine, page 144

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