A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Note

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From volume 2 of the work.

1750700A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — NoteGeorge GroveGeorge Grove

NOTE, NOTES (Lat. nota). The marks or signs by which music is put on paper. [See Notation.] Hence the word is used for the sounds represented by the notes. [See Scale.] Also for the keys of a pianoforte; and for a tune or song, as the 'note' of a bird.

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