Blue Notes

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BN
Pronunciation
/blu noʊts/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Music has @ blue notes @ that sound sad.
  2. A type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
  3. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures.
  4. Could my singing flies in the blue sky as lightsome as a kite? If it was wrote into notes?

Other meanings of BN