Verb
The word is derived from flat
of Flat
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it. Dizzy Gillespie
Conversely, adding a double sharp to any other note not sharped or flatted in the key signature raises the note by two semitones with respect to the chromatic scale. Source: Internet
" Hound Dog ", with its unmodified 12-bar structure (in both harmony and lyrics) and a melody centered on flatted third of the tonic (and flatted seventh of the subdominant), is a blues song transformed into a rock and roll song. Source: Internet
Most scales require that some notes be consistently sharped or flatted. Source: Internet
New forms of chromaticism and dissonance were introduced into jazz, and the dissonant tritone (or "flatted fifth") interval became the "most important interval of bebop" Joachim Berendt. Source: Internet
Some sources state that the term blues is related to " blue notes ", the flatted, often microtonal notes used in blues, but the Oxford English Dictionary claims that the term blues came first and led to the naming of "blue notes". Source: Internet