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, tonemusical notation - (music) notation used by musiciansmusical 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 scalesupertonic - (music) the second note of a diatonic scalemediant - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominantsubdominant - (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scaledominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scalesubmediant - (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 scalepedal, pedal point - a sustained bass notetrill, shake - a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above itmiddle C - the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertzchord - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded togetherpassing note, passing tone - a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notessemibreve, 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 notequarter note, crotchet - a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole noteeighth note, quaver - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole notesemiquaver, sixteenth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole notedemisemiquaver, thirty-second note - a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole notehemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole noteacciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note - an embellishing note usually written in smaller sizeblue note - a flattened third or seventhmonotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)