The art of melody writing depends heavily upon the choices of tones for their nonharmonic or harmonic character.

"Depending on how each note on a tritare is played, the sound can include a few or many nonharmonic ingredients, Gaudet says.

Second order terms To understand the generation of nonharmonic terms (frequency mixing), a more complete formulation must be used, including higher-order terms.

Changing tones (CT) are two successive nonharmonic tones.

Frames were introduced by Duffin and Schaeffer in their study on nonharmonic Fourier series.

His Semitic Suite for piano, written in 1945, draws much from Arabic music: it is nonharmonic, almost homophonic.

"Most nonharmonic tones are dissonant and create intervals of a second, fourth or seventh", which are required to resolve to a chord tone in conventional ways.

Nonharmonic bass notes are bass notes which are not a member of the chord below which they are written.

Both vi and iii are weak and rarely independent, being either linear chords or with the third or sixth scale degree as a nonharmonic tone.

Nonharmonic tones generally occur in a pattern of three pitches, of which the nonharmonic tone is the center:

They are also defined by the time at which they sound: "Nonharmonic tones are pitches that sound along with a chord but are not chord pitches."

In Elektra the chord, Elektra's "harmonic signature" is treated various ways betraying "both tonal and bitonal leanings...a dominant 4/2 over a nonharmonic bass.

For example, in the following anticipation, the preparation is on the left, the nonharmonic tone is in the center marked in red, and the resolution is on the right:

A chromatic nonharmonic tone is a nonharmonic tone that is chromatic, or outside of the key and creates half-step motion.

In a nonharmonic tone, preparation is, in the move of a pitch or chord from a consonance to a dissonance, the consonant pitch or chord which precedes the dissonance.

A nonchord tone or nonharmonic tone is a note in a piece of music which is not a part of the implied harmony that is described by the other notes sounding at the time.

Augmented and diminished intervals are also considered dissonant, and all nonharmonic tones are measured from the bass, or lowest note sounding in the chord except in the case of nonharmonic bass tones.

Wynton Marsalis growled through his muted trumpet for his long solo in "The Shepherd," and he seemed to be shooting for the same emotional territory Ms. Caesar claimed: he waved his plunger mute rapidly over the horn's bell, spiraled out into some nonharmonic notes and theatrically shouted through the instrument.