A bird sang a five-note song; red wings flashed in the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

It's actually the five-note tune that plays throughout the level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

She showed me a simple five-note scale with both hands and, almost instinctively, I repeated with precision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost of Living: No Cure For Cancer] Reference

In the hands of a skillful player, a full five-note pentatonic scale could be drawn from the simple instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

When this array was assembled before Thorin Keep, the trumpeters raised their burnished horns and shrilled a five-note call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covenant of the Forge]

Just for kicks, I used the familiar five-note musical motif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as the basis of my pi melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Side 2 opens with an extraordinary ballad, 'We Work the Black Seam', which builds on a minimal five-note figure and Marsalis 'atonal accents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream of the Blue Turtles] Reference

The goldfinches are back, or others like them, and the white-throated sparrow's five-note song, pleading and pleading, brings tears to the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ELIZABETH BISHOP.] Reference

The five-note scale commonly includes several whole tones that are set off by minor thirds gaps in a formation resembling the black notes of the piano keyboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Later Articles and Reviews] Reference

Her mother-to her credit-had rearranged court dates so that she could watch Josie be plaque in the school dental hygiene play, or hear her five-note solo in the Christmas chorale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Minutes]

There is somebody playing a mouth harp behind an outbuilding-some musical glutton, mouth-sucking giant five-note chords behind the tune of RED RIVER VALLEY Down this toilet they say you are flushin '- Won'tchew light up and set fer a spell?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

A descending five-note figure that had been lingering in our subconscious throughout the piece — actually they are the first notes to appear in the left hand in Emerson — suddenly crystallizes into the Stephen Foster song 'Down in the Cornfield.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism] Reference

For example, after the band Verve lost a legal battle over a five-note Rolling Stones sample which they thought they had permission to use, they lost their copyright to a hit single, which was then used in a commercial against their wishes and won someone else a Grammy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copy Cats] Reference

Chinese five-note scale and detested European harmonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914] Reference

"Recording Debt", thus, mainly uses Vietnamese ngu cung (five-note) music.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Thing Called Love" opens with an instantly recognizable five-note guitar riff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

Also, since Synth has five-note polyphony you will be able to do chording work as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCWorld] Reference

As a nod to the symbologist character, Zimmer hid a five-note musical ambigram in the score.    From Wordnik.com.  [SoundtrackNet] Reference

Suddenly, with the advent of the five-note adjustable horn, a train sounded like a train again.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

This also follows the precepts of the sages in using only the five-note or pentatonic scale found among so many other nationalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

"Listening to your portraits and your five-note compositions reminds me of when people speak about 'soul' in relation to music," Costello says.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Scherzo actually utilizes a five-note sequence from the first movement, and with its unexpected accents and dynamics proves an impish interval, indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

For the improvisation study, researchers Aaron Berkowitz and Daniel Ansari studied the brains of 28 people as they improvised five-note melodies on a tiny keyboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [oboeinsight] Reference

The one exception is if you're using someone else's computer and they've pimped it out with a lot of bells and whistles like playing the five-note theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind whenever new mail arrives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Dave Taylor!] Reference

Toscanini well projects the last movement as a structural microcosm of the symphony as a whole, given the reprise of the prior motifs as Beethoven's musical persona gropes for that five-note theme that grips the idea of Brotherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

In a bid to distract hacks from Intel's upcoming battle with the Federal Trade Commission, the chip giant's spin team have come up with a "funny" video of five Finnish employees firing themselves from cannons in a bid to play the Intel five-note jingle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Omicron took all the time it needed with its lengthy intro that tittered between gamelan-like Eastern melodies and moody folk, but when it finally broke into a euphoric moment built around Victor Low's brisk five-note bass-line, the magic behind Dark Folke became apparent.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Stoltzman's silken tone spun Mozart's exquisite melodies with seemingly effortless grace, especially in the Adagio, which also benefited from the clarinetist's stylish ornamentation of the five-note descending theme that ranks among the most poignant of all Mozart inspirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference