English noun: musical note |
1. | musical note (communication) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound |
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| Samples | The singer held the note too long.
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| Synonyms | note, tone |
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| Broader (hypernym) | musical notation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acciaccatura, appoggiatura, blue note, chord, crotchet, demisemiquaver, dominant, eighth note, grace note, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, keynote, leading tone, mediant, middle C, minim, monotone, passing note, passing tone, pedal, pedal point, quarter note, quaver, semibreve, semiquaver, shake, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, subdominant, submediant, subtonic, supertonic, thirty-second note, tonic, trill, whole note |
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| Member meronym | musical scale, scale |
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