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ˈpassing-ˌnote Mus.
A note not belonging to the harmony, interposed between two notes essential to it, for the purpose of passing smoothly from one to the other. Sometimes also applied to auxiliary notes (see auxiliary a. 2 b).
1730Short Treat. Harmony v. 28 We make use of the Second, the Seventh, and of the Fourth as Discords or Passing Notes. 1776Burney Hist. Music (1789) I. ii. 39 Merely..a passing-note serving only to lead more smoothly to the sixth. 1875Ouseley Princ. Harmony xviii. 199 ‘Passing notes’ should be regarded as nothing more than embellishments. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v., It is a necessary characteristic of a passing-note, that it should have a degree of the scale on each side of it. |