neighbor note
neighbor tone
orneighboring tone
orneighboring note
Definition of neighbor note
: a nonharmonic note that is approached stepwise from above or below and returns to the previous note Within this motive and elsewhere in the movement, the semitone neighbor note will prove to be the most consequential motivic cell … — Stephen E. Hefling, ed., Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, 1998 —called also chiefly British auxiliary note chiefly British auxiliary tone — see counterpoint illustration
neighbor–note
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1900
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1900
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