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adj. - Not belonging to the basic chordal structure of homophony.

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  • The use of non-harmonic tones, as in Fig. 45, is good in either part.
  • "Epiphany" is pretty extravagantly lovely for a hymn; check out those strong-beat double non-harmonic tones in the third bar, like cheese melting onto the sirloin burger...
  • Image hiding based on time-averaged fringes produced by non-harmonic oscillations
  • Mr. Alias 2 uses non-bandlimited oscillators which can be transposed near to and beyond the Nyquist frequency, causing most of their spectra to be aliased back into audible...
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