musical note

Noun
  1. A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound (synset 106878395)
    "the singer held the note too long"
    is a type of: musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • shake, trill - 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
    • crotchet, quarter note - 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)
    belongs to: musical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
    same as: note, tone

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