The phrase "a certain note of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific quality, tone, or feeling that is present in something, often in a nuanced or subtle way.
Example: "The painting had a certain note of melancholy that resonated with the viewers."
Alternatives: "a hint of" or "a touch of".
As he turned the show into a monologue about her stoicism, a certain note of admiration crept into his voice.
But neither the Tigers nor the Sooners bemoaned the fact that college football was heading to its first split championship since 1997, though they sounded a certain note of defiance.
In an instant message on AOL, she summed it up: "The children with invisible friends often interrupted the interviewer to remind her, with a certain note of concern for her sanity, that these characters were, after all, just pretend".
Barely a song at all--three chords and a cloud of dust". There's a certain note of madness to Marsh's undertaking.
The distance of 120 years lends a certain note of the odd and different, but essentially this is a realistic novel, not a romance.
A clef is simply a symbol that defines one spot on the five-line staff used for music writing as being a certain note, a point of reference in relation to which the others are defined.
One thing to note is that because it is very hard to change the delay time of a certain note without changing the timber of the sound using FM synthesis, for beats that are longer than eighth-note beat, such as quarter-note beat and half-note beat, they are represented as one eighth-note beat at first followed by a number of empty beats.
I would love for my music to strike a certain note in the lives of all those who give it a chance.
Although Deutsche has built an investment-banking business of a certain note, it has tied itself in knots working out what to do with its retail business.
"If the majority believes a certain note sounds best after a combination of previous notes, the majority should also believe that all such crowd-picked notes sound pleasant together".
I have only heard one myself that was at Edenfield, – but I was much struck with some of the trilling warbles, which sounded to my ears like certain notes of a weak-voiced canary.
