The phrase "adjacent notes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to music, writing, or any situation where items are next to each other.
Example: "In the sheet music, the adjacent notes create a harmonious melody that is pleasing to the ear."
Alternatives: "neighboring notes" or "contiguous notes".
Melodies and call-and-response phrases arrived with instruments playing them on adjacent notes, so that tunes became broad formations.
Bad singing could be adjusted for by calculating the difference in pitch and intervals between adjacent notes.
In tonality, the intervals between adjacent notes in the scale define line, movement through time; those between notes not adjacent define harmony, everything that happens at once.
Nyman threads his way though a sequence of unidentified pieces (true buffs would no doubt be able to assign them to the correct movie) whose melancholy melodies, often modally-tinged and built out of collections of adjacent notes, are steadily unfolded over sustained chords in the left hand.
Virtually the only moment of repose came in Tan Dun's hypnotic "Dew-Fall Drops," a gentle work that involved a tremolando strumming of adjacent notes inside the piano and was played by Ms. Oppens, who also gave a fluid, lyrical performance of John Harbison's invitingly chromatic "On an Unwritten Letter".
Prototypical tone clusters are chords of three or more adjacent notes on a chromatic scale, that is, three or more adjacent pitches each separated by only a semitone.
The principles of perfection and imperfection gave way to the modern relationship of 2 to 1 between adjacent note values, with the dot adding an extra half value to give a 3 to 1 relationship.
Pick the initial note, and an adjacent note for the trill.
Riverside Park is not a destination like Central Park but is a magnet for people from the Drive and adjacent streets, noted Ethel Sheffer, an urban planner who has lived on Riverside Drive for more than 25 years.
The occurrence of ferricrete landforms in adjacent countries, noted by field observation and inferred from satellite imagery, demonstrates that relief inversion is a very widespread and important phenomenon in southern Mali, Burkina Faso and adjacent countries in semi-arid West Africa.
COSY data detect 2JH-H and 3JH-H correlations and hence show correlations between geminal protons (protons attached to the same carbon) and protons attached to adjacent carbons (note: in order to be observable, geminal protons must be magnetically inequivalent).
