perfectadjective(MUSIC)
Augmented fourth chords can produce a powerful harmonic effect.
Three other parts harmonize in thirds, fourths, or fifths, often in an augmented or diminished form.
Harmonically, I started thinking in terms of major third intervals and augmented triads.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Technical music terms
acciaccatura
accidental
aeolian
aleatory
alto clef
antiphonal
discordant
harmonic progression
harmony
hemidemisemiquaver
inversion
Ionian
overtone
rubato
scherzando
scordatura
secco recitative
secondo
staccato
whole step

Examples of augmented

augmented
We also show how to use the triadic odometer augmented with plus and minus signs to track octagons.
Production systems can be augmented rather easily to carry out such a recognition.
The counts were natural log transformed, after being augmented by 1 to avoid 1n(0).
Lastly, using the wrapper technique where the legacy program is augmented with code that enables it to communicate using the inter-agent language.
The photographs are augmented by commentary obtained from photo elicitation interviews with staff and family members.
First, the augmented ranking rule points to interesting new directions in understanding backward anaphora.
The augmented orchestra consisted of a real string quintet, a virtual flautist, a guitarist and bass player.
For every redundant actuator added within branch(es), the number of the forces resisting an external load is augmented by one.
It is easy to read this arrangement in the score; its audibility is further augmented by the visual setting.
Where competent transmission hosts are more or less completely replaced, rather than augmented, by non-competent host species, enzootic cycles may be severely limited.
Kinematic constraints are taken into account by means of an augmented integral criterion, and are dealt with using a penalty method.
On the contrary, the effects of stressful life events and social support were slightly augmented and not diminished by the inclusion of cortisol.
What the chapters reveal is how much of our knowledge has been augmented or revised in recent years.
Recently, some analysts have augmented this specification with measures of voters' subjective evaluations of national and personal economic conditions.
The entries range in length from three or four words to over 500 words and some 250 entries are augmented by diagrams.
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