changing note

noun

variants or changing tone

1

: an accented passing note or tone in old strict musical counterpoint

2

: a usually unaccented nonharmonic note or tone that resolves to its neighboring chord tone after touching an intervening tone typically a third distant : cambiata compare escape note

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