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enharmonic: a standalone construct

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enharmonic1 CONSTRUCTEnharmonicRANDEL · SAME PITCH

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Music theory

One pitch spelled two different ways

Two notes are enharmonic when they sound the same pitch but are written and named differently, such as C-sharp and D-flat, a coincidence made exact by equal temperament. Randel's The Harvard dictionary of music and Kostka, Payne, and Almén's Tonal harmony describe how composers exploit this double identity to pivot between distant keys, respelling a note so it leads one way on paper and another to the ear. The referent is the identity of pitch across differing notations, identified by comparing spelling against sounding pitch.[1][2]

Unit
A single sounding pitch represented by two or more note spellings
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified where distinct note names map to the same tempered pitch, often at a modulation

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References

  1. Randel, D. M. (Ed.). (2003). The Harvard dictionary of music (4th ed.). Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674011632
  2. Kostka, S., Payne, D., & Almén, B. (2012). Tonal harmony (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780078025143

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