2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Keynote \Key"note`\, n.
1. (Mus.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a
piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the
chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are
referred; -- called also {key tone}.
2. The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key;
as the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
keynote
n 1: the principal theme in a speech or literary work
2: a fundamental or central idea
3: (music) the first note of a diatonic scale [syn: {tonic}]
v 1: set the keynote of "Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall
collection"
2: give the keynote address to (an audience)
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