MUSICAL NOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical note mean? 

• MUSICAL NOTE (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL NOTE has 1 sense:

1. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL NOTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL NOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

musical note; note; tone

Context example:

the singer held the note too long

Hypernyms ("musical note" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical note"):

chord (a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together)

monotone (a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts))

blue note (a flattened third or seventh)

acciaccatura; appoggiatura; grace note (an embellishing note usually written in smaller size)

hemidemisemiquaver; sixty-fourth note (a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note)

demisemiquaver; thirty-second note (a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note)

semiquaver; sixteenth note (a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note)

eighth note; quaver (a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note)

crotchet; quarter note (a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note)

half note; minim (a musical note having the time value of half a whole note)

semibreve; whole note (a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time))

passing note; passing tone (a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes)

middle C (the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz)

shake; trill (a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it)

pedal; pedal point (a sustained bass note)

leading tone; subtonic ((music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale)

submediant ((music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic))

dominant ((music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

subdominant ((music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale)

mediant ((music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant)

supertonic ((music) the second note of a diatonic scale)

keynote; tonic ((music) the first note of a diatonic scale)

Holonyms ("musical note" is a member of...):

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))