Misharmonized

He writes that the C in the bass “replaces a chord so longed for, and so painstakingly prepared over the previous few measures ... the actual granting of the tonic pitch in the melody intensifies the disappointment, for we actually hear the note we seek , but misharmonized.

Furthermore many forms of industrial chronic and degenerative illness are thought to be the result from the effects of misharmonized vibration in the human body.

In addition to the use of the unusual progressions noted earlier, ^3 (C♯) is “misharmonized” in several important ways.