note; musical note; tone




a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

"the singer held the note too long"

Type of:
  • musical notation

Types:
  • tonic; keynote
  • supertonic
  • mediant
  • subdominant
  • dominant
  • submediant
  • subtonic; leading tone
  • pedal point; pedal
  • trill; shake
  • middle C
  • chord
  • passing note; passing tone
  • whole note; semibreve
  • half note; minim
  • quarter note; crotchet
  • eighth note; quaver
  • sixteenth note; semiquaver
  • thirty-second note; demisemiquaver
  • sixty-fourth note; hemidemisemiquaver
  • grace note; appoggiatura; acciaccatura
  • blue note
  • monotone

Parts:
  • scale; musical scale


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