Altos don't wind up singing three-note parts in Brahms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brahms Two Ways] Reference

The distinctive three-note chime has been used by the network since 1929.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chime Right In] Reference

Below it, a three-note 'nature' theme rings out as a recurring bass pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism] Reference

To play a three-note chord, for example, you press a cluster of three buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of a New Instrument] Reference

Wigeon are the go-to bird here; bring a whistle to mimic their three-note call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great American Duck Hunts] Reference

The three-note descant sounded again, sounding like an all clear, and Kate smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

They make cute little chattering sounds and sometimes bell-like three-note whistles.    From Wordnik.com.  [They're stalking me] Reference

A high-pitched three-note whistle sounded in the room and a female voice came over the intercom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edge of the Sword] Reference

I wish I could find another one of those every day: a simple, easy, three-note or four-note riff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking On The Moon, 12''] Reference

Then, finally, a bell-bird sang out its three-note call, and the two musicians sighed and opened their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Robin And The Kestrel]

The opening of # 41 has a brusque, loud three-note motif followed by a quieter, less gruff phrase for the strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

It's a three-note call — two short, one long — that sounds like air being let out of a tire: phht-phht-phhhhhh!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Bestul's Six Tricks for Fooling Trophy Whitetail Bucks During the Rut] Reference

To play the next three-note chord, you keep your fingers in the same shape and move to a different group of buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of a New Instrument] Reference

It also gave both places a large influx of freed Haitian slaves, who brought with them a particular three-note musical cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution] Reference

He was fond of false relations and various forms of nota cambiata, including the archaic three-note figure followed by a rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The monitor's chimes sang dieir three-note paean, and its raddled gray face appeared to announce the final score: thirteen to twelve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightside The Long Sun]

The ending of the song is where the improvisation really moves, although the guitars do improvise slightly on their three-note riff throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference

She practiced her breathing exercises and tried a few three-note vocal exercises, and was delighted that her voice seemed clearer than it had ever sounded to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

If I play a three-note chord, three move, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biosingularity] Reference

That three-note croony theme song was driving me mad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

I tried a few more, and eventually a three-note chord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference

It is not very difficult to play, having convenient three-note phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell]

Even as a boy, he remembers thinking how beautiful that three-note chord was.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

After a nearly two-minute introduction dominated by an irresistible three-note.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Mr. DAVID FINCKEL (Cellist, Emerson String Quartet): The famous three-note knocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

After ten minutes of a pointless three-note synth drone, I assumed he was just testing the crowd's resolve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glorious Noise] Reference

Take the whippoorwill, an American bird, noted, as the name suggests, for its characteristic three-note song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

It was more than a dozen years ago that Gustafson warbled that three-note sign-off for a small Internet start-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from union-bulletin.com] Reference

This work is based on a three-note motive-cell which is used in each of its seven movements creating remarkably diverse music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

1950: Trademark granted for three-note NBC chimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

"We have a three-note rhythm cell that came out of Africa and through Haiti.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution] Reference

(A three-note sample is not original enough to be protected under copyright law, in my view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

A varied thrush played its three-note set.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

"circles around simple three-note guitar pings (not unlike the intro of Smashing Pumpkins '".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Old Kentucky Blog] Reference