Note
Of musical notation and scale. May also be referred to as musical note and tone.
A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long".
This concept's ID is @1~36540
Music
- 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).
- subtonic
(music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale.
Also contains
- chord
A combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together.
- blue note
A flattened third or seventh.
- pedal
A sustained bass note.
- middle C
The note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz.
- monotone
A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering...
- passing note
A nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes.
- whole note
A musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time).
- shake
A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it.
- half note
A musical note having the time value of half a whole note.
- crotchet
A musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note.
- eighth note
A musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note.
- sixteenth note
A musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note.
- thirty-second note
A musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note.
- sixty-fourth note
A musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note.
- grace note
An embellishing note usually written in smaller size.