musical note

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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 - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) keynote, tonic - (music) the first note of a diatonic scale 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, pedal point - 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 monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)