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When you talk of a “note” what do
you mean? Even if you speak of a musical note you may mean three things. You
may mean (1) the printed note on the music, (2) the piano key which you press,
(3) the sound you hear when a key is pressed, or when a singer sings or a
player plays, or someone whistles. But you are only really correct when you
talk of notes and mean those signs in printed manuscript music which we call
notes and which are part of our system of notation. The Latin word
nota, “written or noted down,” gives the
sense.
But the great difficulty in using
the word “note” for its correct meaning only, is that most people use it in
wrong senses – a great many musicians among them! Use your observation and see
if you can discover some examples of this wrong use. In the meantime there are
some instances kindly provided for you below
J
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