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blue note

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blue note
n. Music
A flatted note, especially the third or seventh note of a scale, in place of an expected major interval.
[From its use in blues music.]
blue note
n
(Music) Jazz a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
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Noun1.blue note - a flattened third or seventh
musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
blues - a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes


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