Pitch alterations might be desirable for the sake of euphony for example, to avoid certain diminished or augmented intervals.
In order not to violate Aristotle's principle that substantial forms cannot be diminished or augmented (a man is not more man than another), Averroes argued that elementary forms are not substantial forms in the full sense.
Averroes' position, that the elementary forms can be diminished and augmented, found many supporters, among them Henry of Ghent, Petrus Johannes Olivi, Richard of Middleton, John of Jandun and several members of the Merton school of the fourteenth century (Maier 1952, 36 46).
If it's a metal song, use the minor, diminished, or augmented scales.
This orchestral music contains extensive chromaticism, diminished sevenths, and augmented scales.
Their conversation is filled with flatted 5ths, diminished 7ths and augmented 4ths; their chatter patter is a Q & A of staccato/legato phrases and frenetic chord progressions.
Contractile dysfunction is characterized by biventricular dilatation, blunted blood pressure response to intravenous fluids, a reversible reduction in ejection fraction (EF) and a diminished ability to augment cardiac output despite increased levels of circulating catecholamines (Flynn et al., 2010; Hoesel et al., 2007).
Co-treatment of D3 with E2 neither augmented nor diminished the E2-induced increase in uterine wet weight.
With regard to Trizol® versus Marligen column-based RNA isolation, it is clear that inhibitory artifacts of RNA isolation can be augmented or diminished according to the method of RNA isolation employed, and by the extent of dilution RNA samples undergo prior to their use in qPCR.
This is hexagram 41 in the I Ching, called "diminishing to augment".
Let people freely and rationally think about how best to organize human society — with a view toward diminishing turmoil and augmenting the realization of individual potential — and eventually they'd separate church and state.
