unharmonized

English

Alternative forms

• unharmonised

Etymology

un- +‎ harmonized

Adjective

unharmonized (not comparable)

1. Not harmonized

   an unharmonized melody

   • 2005, Eric Clarke, Ways of Listening, page 172:

     For example, I hear a "forward" reference to the quartets of Bartok and Shostakovitch (and perhaps more generally to a kind of imprecise "Central European nationalism/folkism”) in the bare and unharmonized motif in the viola and cello, imitated by the first and second violins, at bars 92–94 of the movement.

Verb

unharmonized

1. simple past and past participle of unharmonize