note

A note is a legal document that obligates an issuer to repay the creditor the principal amount of a loan plus any interest payments at a predetermined date. The main types of notes include promissory notes, Treasury notes, unsecured notes, convertible notes, and structured notes.

12 notes Western music typically uses 12 notes – C, D, E, F, G, A and B, plus five flats and equivalent sharps in between, which are: C sharp/D flat (they're the same note, just named differently depending on what key signature is being used), D sharp/E flat, F sharp/G flat, G sharp/A flat and A sharp/B flat.

Music notes are a means of turning this aural art form into something written so that it can be preserved, circulated and reproduced by multiple musicians. There are many different notation systems that have been developed across many different cultures.

Also called (esp US and Canadian): tone. a musical sound of definite fundamental frequency or pitch. 11.

Notes represent the sounds (or pitches) we hear, while rests represent the sounds we don't hear. Rests indicate the absence of a sounding note, but they are very much part of the music. Every note value has an equivalent rest value.

Likewise, he found that people could remember a sequence of up to seven tones, but not much more. This limit on short-term memory capacity was termed “the magical number seven, plus or minus two”. This may be one reason why we use seven notes in our scales, rather than 12, in order to help us remember more easily.

stave Today most musicians in the Western world write musical notes on a stave: five parallel lines with four spaces in between them.

The seeds of what would eventually become modern Western notation were sown in medieval Europe, starting with the Christian Church's goal for ecclesiastical uniformity. The church began notating plainchant melodies so that the same chants could be used throughout the church.

The tonic The tonic (also called the “keynote” or sometimes “doh”) is the most important note in a piece of music. It's the note which we normally expect a song to finish on (although there are plenty of exceptions!) It's the note that feels like the destination, where all the other notes are trying to lead back to.

This was the logical thing to do, as Boethius was not thinking in terms of major and minor scales we have today, but was trying to describe each pitch in his entire range of possible notes. So A, the first letter of the alphabet, was, quite intuitively, just a name he used to label the lowest tone in this range.

A musical note is the minimum element of a sound. When a string vibrates, it moves the air molecules around it. This agitation of the molecules occurs at the same frequency as the string vibrates. The human ear captures this vibration from the air and processes it by assigning a sound to the brain.

silence Rests are intervals of silence in pieces of music, marked by symbols indicating the length of the silence. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value, indicating how long the silence should last, generally as a multiplier of a measure or whole note.