Definition of Sharped

1. Adjective. (music) Raised in pitch by half a note. Made into a sharp note. ¹

2. Verb. (music) (past of sharp) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sharped

1. sharp [v] - See also: sharp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharped

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sharped (current term)
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Literary usage of Sharped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Carmina Sacra: Or Boston Collection of Church Music. Comprising the by Boston Academy of Music (1853)
"What is 4 in the key of D 7—What letter, then, mast be sharped, in transposing from D ... What is the signature to the key of F.?—What letter.« are sharped? ..."

2. The Boston Academy's Collection of Church Music: Consisting of the Most by Boston Academy of Music, Lowell Mason (1836)
"7, by asking questions similar to those found at the end of that chapter. § SI-- A sharped note naturally leads upwards, or after a sharped note the ..."

3. The Odeon: A Collection of Secular Melodies, Arranged and Harmonized for by Lowell Mason (1848)
"The teacher may now introduce the sharped note, so as to present the following ... In speaking of the altered notes (sharped or flatted) by nume rals, ..."

4. Manual of the Boston Academy of Music, for Instruction in the Elements of by Lowell Mason, Boston Academy of Music (1839)
"In order to strike a sharped or flatted note correctly, we must think of the sound to ... To strike a sharped note correctly, think of the next sound above. ..."

5. Elements of Notation and Harmony: With Fifty-eight Exercises for Use in by Ludwig Bussler (1890)
"Raise by half a tone sharped, flatted, and double-flatted tones. ... Lower by a whole tone sharped and double-sharped tones. § 33. ..."

6. The New Carmina Sacra: Or, Boston Collection of Church Music: Comprising the by Lowell Mason, Boston Academy of Music (1850)
"If the lower note of any major interval be sharped, or the upper one flatted, ... If lower sound of any major interval he sharped, what does the interval ..."

7. The Harpsichord, Or, Union Collection of Sacred Music: Comprising a Great by Leonard Marshall, Henry N. Stone (1852)
"It will be perceived, that 6 and 7 of the minor scale are sharped. The tea- ton is this : When from the 7th you ascend to the 8th, the 7th should be sharped ..."

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