Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
Shak.
10. (Mus.) (a) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of
a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
Hence: (b) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. (c) A key of
the piano or organ.
The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.
Milton.
That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect
in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.
W. Pater.