musical note

1. 1.

   a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

   “the singer held the note too long”

   Synonymsnotetone

   Broadermusical notation

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   Part ofscale

Questions about musical note

What does musical note mean?

musical note means "a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound".

What is another word for musical note?

Close synonyms include note, tone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical note a common word?

musical note is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.