Sentence examples for a main note from inspiring English sources

Appoggiatura, (from Italian appoggiare, "to lean"), in music, an ornamental note of long or short duration that temporarily displaces, and subsequently resolves into, a main note, usually by stepwise motion.

Part of the attraction was that the cathedral's bells were tuned to produce an overtone a major third above the main note (an E natural if playing a C), rather than the minor third overtone (E flat if playing a C) that is the usual characteristic of carillons.

According to the guitar tuner I clipped to the bell, the plastic horn's main note is an A below middle C. I can also manage a breathy, wavering D below that, and even another A an octave up, although not without losing my vision for some minutes.

He described the ideal classical pitch component as varying by no more than a semitone around the main note.

Just as an organ pipe resonates with its main note and higher harmonics, the early universe should have contained the smaller ripples, according to inflationary theory.

The latter had in fact led to some confusion with the acciaccatura, a dissonant ornamental note played simultaneously with the main note but quickly released.

During the Renaissance and early Baroque, the appoggiatura was of moderate length, averaging one-third of the main note, and was more in the nature of a melodic than a harmonic ornament.

It may even delay the sounding of the main note.

Either way, struck forte or pianissimo, novelty is the designer's main note.

But the main note echoing around Beirut on Sunday was one of optimism, and spontaneous celebrations burst out in several neighborhoods.

"Steven's main note," Parkes told me, "tended to be that the alien faces should somewhere and somehow reflect human structure".