Sentence examples for middle note from inspiring English sources
The middle note comes from much higher in the overtone series.
To sing the first phrase of "Three Blind Mice" with the middle note perceptibly too high can hardly have seemed satisfactory at any period.
When the home chord of B minor is finally reasserted in the brass, it has a hollow ring, its middle note pushed deep into the bass.
It's tailor-made for preening, with a top note of sandalwood, a middle note of tonka bean and a base of self-righteousness.
I imagine a top note of citrus, nodding to Rubio's native Florida, and a middle note of tea, nodding to his party-within-a-party.
Each perfume is composed of a top note, the refreshing, volatile odour perceived immediately; a middle note, or modifier, providing full, solid character; and a base note, also called an end note or basic note, which is the most persistent.
The vertical shape of the tower, he said, "gives you a great number of resources if you need high notes, middle notes, low notes".
With top notes of citrus grove and rose water; middle notes of blooming jasmine, wild violets and Amazon lily; and a base of musk, golden amber and sandalwood, the fragrance starts at $39 for one ounce.
Bass ratio gauges how efficiently low notes, compared with middle notes, carom from the walls and other surfaces; a high bass ratio gives a hall what musicians call warmth.
With top notes of blackcurrant buds, magnolia and violets, and middle notes of rose petals, iris, ylang-ylang, jasmine and rosewood bark, the floral scent plays on Bovet's origins in Fleurier, the village in the Val-de-Travers district of the Swiss Jura that is also known as the valley of a thousand flowers.
They crunched like tough cartilage — as opposed to that soft cartilage crunch of jellyfish, for example — and reminded me of the flavor chicken bones contribute to chicken broth: not the meaty middle notes from the flesh, not the golden yellow richness from rendered fat and skin, but a higher, thinner, fainter, harder-to-put-your-finger-on one.
