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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Accidentals

Acciden′tals

in music are those sharps and flats, etc., which do not properly belong to the key in which the music is set, but which the composer arbitrarily introduces.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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