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Definition of Passing note
1. Noun. A nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes.
Literary usage of Passing note
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"*2) The accented passing-note, from below, is occasionally subject to par. ...
*3) The descending passing-note, when accented, is often identical with the ..."
2. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"note, either ascending or descending, which may be called either an alteration
or a passing-note: Between two notes separated by a third, there is room for ..."
3. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"note, either ascending or descending, which may be called either an alteration
or a passing-note: •- !*g Between two notes separated by a third, ..."
4. Exercises in Melody-writing: A Systematic Course of Melodic Composition by Percy Goetschius (1900)
"THE PASSING-NOTE. 1O4> RULE III. — Any skip of a third between two successive
... Usually the Passing-note takes exactly half the value of the first tone, ..."
5. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1871)
"passing note, £c. And the jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do further
present, that late of the City and County of New York, in the circuit and ..."
6. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"The Passing-note is an inharmonic tone which is touched in "passing" ... 271,
Rule I, for the distinction between the Neighboring-note and the Passing-note. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"The most conspicuous of these was the process of interpolating a note between
the passing note and the arrival at its destination, as in the following ..."
8. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... three-act opéra comique, trill; passing note. MON ROI," to book by Sedaine,
... passing note ..."
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