musical note
English Thesaurus
1. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | musical notation, |
| definition | : | (music) notation used by musicians (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | keynote, tonic, |
| definition | : | (music) the first note of a diatonic scale (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | supertonic, |
| definition | : | (music) the second note of a diatonic scale (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | mediant, |
| definition | : | (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | subdominant, |
| definition | : | (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | dominant, |
| definition | : | (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | submediant, |
| definition | : | (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | leading tone, subtonic, |
| definition | : | (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | pedal, pedal point, |
| definition | : | a sustained bass note (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | shake, trill, |
| definition | : | a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | middle c, |
| definition | : | the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | chord, |
| definition | : | a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | passing note, passing tone, |
| definition | : | a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | semibreve, whole note, |
| definition | : | a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | half note, minim, |
| definition | : | a musical note having the time value of half a whole note (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | crotchet, quarter note, |
| definition | : | a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | eighth note, quaver, |
| definition | : | a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | semiquaver, sixteenth note, |
| definition | : | a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | blue note, |
| definition | : | a flattened third or seventh (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | monotone, |
| definition | : | a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) (noun.communication) |
| member meronym | : | musical scale, scale, |
| definition | : | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) (noun.communication) |
| derivation | : | tonic, |
| definition | : | relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | tonic, |
| definition | : | relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale (adj.all) |
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