Harmonic Definition

här-mŏnĭk
harmonics
adjective
Harmonious in feeling or effect; agreeing.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a harmonic progression.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to harmony rather than to melody or rhythm.
Webster's New World
Pleasing to the ear.
Harmonic orchestral effects.
American Heritage
Characterized by harmony.
A harmonic liturgical chant.
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noun
harmonics
Any of the pure tones making up a composite tone, including the upper partials or overtones of the fundamental, and often excluding the fundamental itself.
Webster's New World
A tone produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or stopped vibrating string at a given fraction of its length so that both segments vibrate.
American Heritage
An alternating-current voltage or current or a component of such voltage or current, whose frequency is some integral multiple of a fundamental frequency.
Webster's New World
The theory or study of the physical properties and characteristics of musical sound.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Harmonic

Noun

Singular:
harmonic
Plural:
harmonics

Origin of Harmonic

  • From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikos), from ἁρμονία (harmonia, “harmonie”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin harmonicus from Greek harmonikos from harmoniā harmony harmony

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Harmonic Sentence Examples

  • In Wagner's harmonic style we encounter the entire problem of modern musical texture.

  • A similar method has frequently been applied to the study of variations of soil-temperatures by harmonic analysis of the annual waves.

  • We have seen (in the articles on Harmony and Music) how harmonic music originated in just this habit of regarding combinations of sound as mere sensations, and how for centuries the habit opposed itself to the intellectual principles of contrapuntal harmony.

  • The only illogical point in his system is that the beauty of his dreamlike chords depends not only on his artful choice of a timbre that minimizes their harshness, but also on the fact that they enter the ear with the meaning they have acquired through centuries of harmonic evolution on classical lines.

  • The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense.

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