Unharmonized

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of unharmonize form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Not harmonized not-comparable

    "an unharmonized melody"

Example

More examples

"For example, I hear a "forward" reference to the quartets of Bartok and Shostakovitch (and perhaps more generally to a kind of imprecise "Central European nationalism/folkism”) in the bare and unharmonized motif in the viola and cello, imitated by the first and second violins, at bars 92–94 of the movement."

Etymology

From un- + harmonized.

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