Definition of musical note Musical note
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What does musical note mean?
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| musical note - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" | ||
| note, tone | ||
| musical notation (music) notation used by musicians | ||
| musical scale, scale a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | ||
| keynote, tonic a fundamental or central idea | ||
| supertonic (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | ||
| mediant (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | ||
| subdominant (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale | ||
| dominant (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | ||
| submediant (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | ||
| leading tone, subtonic (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | ||
| pedal point, pedal a sustained bass note | ||
| trill, shake a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | ||
| middle c the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz | ||
| chord a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together | ||
| passing note, passing tone a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes | ||
| semibreve, whole note a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | ||
| half note, minim a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | ||
| quarter note, crotchet a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | ||
| eighth note, quaver a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | ||
| semiquaver, sixteenth note a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | ||
| demisemiquaver, thirty-second note a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | ||
| hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | ||
| acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | ||
| blue note a flattened third or seventh | ||
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