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passing note
noun
, Music.
- a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.
passing note
noun
- music a nonharmonic note through which a melody passes from one harmonic note to the next Compare auxiliary note
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Word History and Origins
Origin of passing note1
First recorded in 1720–30
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Example Sentences
This seems to bear out the common view of the Enharmonic as produced by the introduction of an 'accidental' or passing note.
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Shakespeare's mention of the Strawberry and the Nettle (No. 2) deserves a passing note.
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The Countess d'Agoult is worthy of much more than a passing note.
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And in passing note the fact that he still got letters from his people after he came to Tombstone with a price on his head.
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The passing note of a bird or the scent of a flower may be enough to upset a most admirably contrived plan.
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