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- noun A musical work that has been
reharmonized .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised
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Examples
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That being said, Stravinsky's unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner in 1940 led to his arrest by the Boston police for violating a federal law that prohibited the "reharmonization" of the National Anthem.
BabyBlueOnline 2009
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I used my downtime filling the margins of my program with a reharmonization of John Knowles Paine's "Harvard Hymn" that would probably have gotten me kicked out of Harvard by A.T. Davison back in the day:
Till the stock of the Puritans die Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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I used my downtime filling the margins of my program with a reharmonization of John Knowles Paine's "Harvard Hymn" that would probably have gotten me kicked out of Harvard by A.T. Davison back in the day:
Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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