ground note

His voice, explaining and interpreting, became the ground note of the trip.

The giant forest pig is Mason's ground note.

The village and surrounding Clyde Valley are built on fertile ground noted for their tomato greenhouses.

By means of computer analysis, he discovers the fundamental or ground note that underlies any given complex chord or sequence of tones.

And the listener is challenged by the composer's habitually restless harmonic activity: for example, the tendency toward whiplash chord changes over a ground note.

A three-note chord consisting of the ground note, and a tritone and a major seventh above, e.g. F, B, E.

- Hobart 28.15 (183) v Lauderdale 12.4 (76) - TCA Ground Note: Clarence wore their Maroon and White heritage strip for this match.

The ground note here is self-pity; it is as though, after proving that he can be as detached and ironic as he pleases, Tate has earned the right to express naked emotion.

Here were pale tears of frankincense awaiting extraction, yellow bergamot, sandalwood, cinnamon and mimosa in concert, over the sustaining ground notes of genuine ambergris, civet, castor from the beaver, and essence of the musk deer.

In Tristano's "Wow," the melody, in four, was laid over a waltz rhythm; piano and trumpet played Tristano's galloping, whorl-like lines, while saxophone and bass played the ground notes in unison; and the drumming was in half-time.