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Meaning of "middle C" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MIDDLE C

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIDDLE C

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determiner
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Middle C is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MIDDLE C MEAN IN ENGLISH?

C (musical note)

In terms of musical pitch, C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solfège scale. Its enharmonic is B♯, which is by definition a diatonic semitone below C♯.

Definition of middle C in the English dictionary

The definition of middle C in the dictionary is the note graphically represented on the first ledger line below the treble staff or the first ledger line above the bass staff and corresponding in pitch to an internationally standardized fundamental frequency of 261.63 hertz.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIDDLE C

middle age
Middle Ages
Middle America
Middle American
Middle Atlantic States
middle class
middle common room
Middle Congo
middle course
middle distance
Middle Dutch
middle ear
Middle East
Middle Eastern
middle eight
Middle England
Middle English
middle finger
Middle French
middle game

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIDDLE C

C in C
C of C
D and C
Generation C
hepatitis C
high C
vitamin C

Synonyms and antonyms of middle C in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «middle C» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIDDLE C

Find out the translation of middle C to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of middle C from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «middle C» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中央C
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

C media
570 millions of speakers

English

middle C
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मध्यम सी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منتصف C
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

средний C
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meio C
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মধ্য সি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

milieu C
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tengah C
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mittleren C
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中央ハ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중간 C
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tengah C
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giữa C
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடுத்தர சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्यम क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Orta C
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

middle C
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

middle C
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

середній C
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de mijloc C
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέση C
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

middel C
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mitt C
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

midten C
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of middle C

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE C»

The term «middle C» is regularly used and occupies the 58.491 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE C» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about middle C

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLE C»

Discover the use of middle C in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to middle C and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Middle C
Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria in 1938 to London where his father disappeared, he and his family then relocated to small town Ohio and Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.
William H. Gass, 2013
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Middle C
After Joseph Skizzen's family flees from Austria to London in 1938, his father disappears and he and his family relocate to small town Ohio, where Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.
William H. Gass, 2013
3
Middle C
Middle C tells the story of this journey, an investigation into the nature of human identity and the ways in which each of us is several selves, and whether any one self is more genuine than another.
William H. Gass, 2013
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Song of Middle C
A little girl imagines her first piano recital and spends a lot of time practicing to make sure that she is prepared to perform and surprisingly discovers yet another skill when she performs.
Alison McGhee, 2009
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57 octaves below the middle C buzzed by the bee: (or really) ...
Marcellus Hall (of The New Yorker, The New York Times) has offered forty illustrations throughout the book as integral vignettes alongside the script.
Chris Leo, Marcellus Hall, 2006
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The American history and encyclopedia of music ...
octave hautboy octave hautboy An organ stop whose pipes produce tones like a hautboy, or oboe, and whose lowest tone is C below middle c. octave, large The octave beginning on the second C below middle C. octave, large, once-marked ...
William Lines Hubbard, Edward Dickinson, George Whitfield Andrews, 1910
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Popular Mechanics: An Illustrated Weekly Review of the ...
The keys of a piano furnish the basis of the system, each key being represented by a fixed symbol of letters with accompanying characters. In detail; the system is as follows : All white keys above middle C are indicated by capital letters.
‎1912
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Primer of Facts about Music: Questions and Answers on the ...
The C clef is called the tenor clef when the sign indicating Middle C is on the 4th line; the alto clef when it is on the 3d line; and the soprano clef when it is on the 1st line. 17 Middle C is so called because it is about in the middle of the compass  ...
May Garrettson Evans, 1908
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The Normal Musical Hand-book: A Book of Instruction and ...
A Book of Instruction and Reference for Teachers of Notation, Voice Culture, Harmony and Church Music, in Classes George Frederick Root. Sing as I call, and notice how many pitches you sing that are named C. We go upward first. Middle C ...
George Frederick Root, 1872
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Premier Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 1A
Alexander, Dennis, Kowalchyk, Gayle, Lancaster, E. L., McArthur, Victoria, Mier, Martha. Theory Book: page 26 i l P Play with LH. P Prepare LH • I will play L -G- this a. Reading Middle C Middle C in Treble Clef Middle C for RH is written on a ...
Alexander, Dennis, Kowalchyk, Gayle, Lancaster, E. L.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLE C»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term middle C is used in the context of the following news items.
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High-pitched music makes chocolate taste sweeter, and other sonic …
... if speculative, history: in nineteenth-century London, perfumer Septimus Piesse created a scent scale in which middle C was matched with ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
2
Lori Borgman: Furniture logs frequent-family miles
Yep, just roll your little cart right there under Middle C, Mr. Mechanic. There is a crib in the family that has been in three different states, ... «The San Luis Obispo Tribune, Jul 15»
3
SoundTreks: The Crow
It's a middle C. Toast with no butter. And, at 5 minutes and 45 seconds, there's too much of it. Incidentally, the band eventually evolved into a ... «Crave Online, Jul 15»
4
Enjoy some tunes at New Covenant
I will be seated at the Steinway trying to figure out where “middle C” is, and Elizabeth and Wil Thomas will be at the microphone providing the ... «Natchez Democrat, Jul 15»
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Middle C, or C4, is pitch 60. The highest key on a piano, C8, is MIDI pitch 108. A lot of the rest is analogous to making a visual chart: We use a ... «Reveal, Jul 15»
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Scientific instruments have placed the note at 57 octaves below middle C on a piano. The idea of music and heavenly bodies is not new. In fact ... «Philippine Star, Jul 15»
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Beyond middle C: Adults 'tickle the ivories' at River Campus piano …
McClary's daughter took lessons; McClary tried to practice on her own, but didn't learn much besides "how to do a scale and what middle C was ... «Southeast Missourian, Jul 15»
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Real Estate Transactions
Middle C L.P. to Biker Blend Coffee LLC at 405-407 S. Green Lane for $201,000. Real estate transactions are provided by RealSTATs, 1911 E. «Butler Eagle, Jul 15»
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Lombard nurse sentenced to 5 years for sending guns to Philippines
Vocal cords vibrate “440 times per second when singing A above middle C,” she wrote in a paper about overuse of the voice. “She was an ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
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Bohemian Rhapsody turns 40; even Kanye West covered it at …
... of which he used in the song, but the best bits are still accessible even to people limited to a couple of notes either side of middle C. “Mama, ... «The Australian, Jul 15»

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