The phrase "a pair of notes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to two notes, whether they are musical notes, written notes, or any other context where a pair is relevant.
Example: "She handed me a pair of notes that explained the project details."
Alternatives: "two notes" or "a couple of notes".
By contrast, Coltrane followed his Paris outburst with some lofty philosophical playfulness, picking a pair of notes from the melody and repeating them, rocking back and forth between them as if examining their gleam in the light, working them out bit by bit, line by line, until they build to an outrageous complexity that seems to astonish even him as it rushes by.
Afterward, I'm like aaaah, aaaah," he boomed out a pair of operatic notes.
I like to send a couple of pairs of zany or mismatched socks (it's a thing, you know) with a pair of chatty Notes To Self socks.
A pair of two-note phrases repeat and are answered by two lower notes, rising.
The short bursts of language alternate with a simple guitar figure that hammers on a rising pair of notes and then descends again, swinging slowly.
Now he sings with renewed confidence, and, despite a pair of cracked high notes, he conquered the ludicrously difficult Act V solo scene.
Mainly a guitarist, Clark began the album in a French hotel room in December of 2007, using GarageBand software and a pair of headphones, "drawing notes one by one, until they sounded how they should sound".
The day I stopped by, Sovereign and Medasyn played "Random" for me, a work-in-progress that captured grime's most irrational, fractal qualities: a pair of palsied bass notes here, a fibrillating shaker noise there, and a wobbly melody line that didn't sound entirely well.
The track starts off quite brutally, with a heavily-distorted pair of notes clashing against one another in a kind of sonic impasse, which reflects the artist's anger and heartache.
His aims were ultramodern, and his execution — on a pair of impetuous Blue Note albums, his last for that label — earned some acclaim.
In 1999, a pair of organisational academics noted that there was something curious about Jobs's employees: "People were recruited to Apple with the idea that they would be helping to change the world.
