‖ paraphonia
(pærəˈfəʊnɪə)
Also (in sense 1) paraphony (pəˈræfənɪ).
[med.L., f. Gr. παράϕωνος sounding beside (f. παρα- beside + ϕωνή sound); applied in pl. to certain harmonies: cf. παραϕωνή side-sound.]
1. Gr. Mus. The harmony or concord of fourths and fifths: cf. antiphony 1 and homophony 1 a.
| 1776 Burney Hist. Mus. I. 127 note, Two passages..shew, that even in their time, thirds and sixths made no part of their Antiphonia, or Paraphonia. 1782–6 Chambers Cycl. (ed. Rees), Paraphonia, in Music, is that species of concord, which results from different sounds, as the fifth and fourth: and thus it differs from homophonia, which is produced by the same sounds, as in the unison, and from antiphonia, or the replication of the same sounds, as in the octave. 1919 H. J. Watt Found. Music 157 The term paraphony was used by several later writers, Thrasyllus, Bacchius and Gaudentius. 1924 T. H. Y. Trotter Music & Mind 154 The words ‘symphony’, ‘paraphony’, and ‘diaphony’ are used to express more or less complete unity and dissonance. |
2. Alteration of the voice from physiological or pathological causes.
| 1799 Hooper Dict. Med., Paraphonia, alteration of the voice... A genus of disease comprehending six species. 1878 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 873 He [Mansfeld] distinguishes two varieties of defective speech [in deaf-mutes], paraphonia and mogilalia. 1. Paraphonia. The voice is unpleasant, rough, and even harsh. |
Hence paraˈphonic a., of or pertaining to paraphonia (sense 1); paraˈphonically adv.
| 1836 W. T. Spurdens tr. Longinus xxviii. 113 In music, the principal sound falls more sweetly upon the ear by means of what are called paraphonic variations. 1919 H. J. Watt Found. Music 156 For the proper flow of simultaneous melodies intervals must either be themselves actually paraphonic or they must be used paraphonically. |