Usually means: Non-harmonic note between harmonies.
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  1. passing tone: Merriam-Webster
  2. passing tone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passing tone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passing tone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. passing tone: Vocabulary.com
  6. passing-tone, passing tone: Wordnik
  7. passing tone: Wiktionary
  8. Passing tone, passing tone: Dictionary.com
  9. Passing tone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. passing tone: Rhymezone
  11. passing tone: FreeDictionary.org
  12. passing tone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. passing tone: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (passing tone)

▸ noun:  (music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second lower than a note in one chord and a second higher than a note in the other chord

Similar:
passing note, neighbor tone, anticipation, tendency tone, combination tone, false harmonic, replicate, neotonality, cambiata, otonality, more...

Opposite:
cadence, descending tone, resolution

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Similar:
passing note, neighbor tone, anticipation, tendency tone, combination tone, false harmonic, replicate, neotonality, cambiata, otonality, more...

Opposite:
cadence, descending tone, resolution



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