inharˈmonical, a.
[in-3.]
Not harmonical. † inharmonical relation, or relation inharmonical, in Mus. the same as false relation (obs.).
| 1674 Playford Skill Mus. (1697) 91 'Tis very Inharmonical, therefore to be avoided. 1706 Phillips, Relation Inharmonical (in Musical Composition), a harsh Reflection of Flat against Sharp in a cross Form; viz. when some harsh and displeasing Discord is produc'd in comparing the present Note of another Part. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 372 It is shocking for a whole harmony to be inharmonical. |