Noun(1) the principal theme in a speech or literary work,a fundamental or central idea,(music) the first note of a diatonic scale(2) the principal theme in a speech or literary work(3) a fundamental or central idea(4) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
Verb(1) set the keynote of,give the keynote address to (an audience)(2) set the keynote of(3) give the keynote address to (an audience)
Noun(1) the principal theme in a speech or literary work,a fundamental or central idea,(music) the first note of a diatonic scale(2) the principal theme in a speech or literary work(3) a fundamental or central idea(4) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
Verb(1) set the keynote of,give the keynote address to (an audience)(2) set the keynote of(3) give the keynote address to (an audience)
(1) All three forms have in common the flattened third scale degree, producing a characteristic minor 3rd with the keynote .(2) he delivered the keynote address(3) In every type of musical scale, the notes progress in a series of intervals from a keynote to the octave above or below.(4) Individuality, as everywhere in the castle, is the keynote .(5) It has that lick of elegance that is the keynote of New Zealand red, the sort of wine that stands proudly on the table and always tastes of u2018more pleaseu2019.(6) There were keynote addresses, and smaller seminars and workshops.(7) An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 participated in the demonstration while the prime minister was delivering his annual keynote economic speech.(8) Many times I have experienced ringing cell phones in the middle of my keynote presentations.(9) With a new band, spontaneity will be the keynote .(10) The actual content of his speech was pretty close to zero, but that's fine for a convention keynote .(11) This is the keynote , leading to a prolonged examination of how writers have used narrative technique in order to provide aspects of what we guess about consciousness.(12) The buzz of menace the incident initially transmits, though, sounds a keynote .(13) individuality is the keynote of the Nineties(14) That pitch might have been better made against a track record of unimpeachable integrity, where promises had been kept, failure openly acknowledged, and honesty had been the keynote of his government.(15) The candidate will hum or sing and afterwards name the interval of the second, third, fourth or fifth of the major scale as played by the examiner, in succession to the keynote .(16) Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
