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Semiquaver   Listen
noun
Semiquaver  n.  (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; now usually called a sixteenth note.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Semiquaver" Quotes from Famous Books



... appoggiato^, appoggiatura^; acciaccatura^. note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note &c (shrillness) 410; low note &c 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c; diatessaron^. breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden. tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^, mediant^, dominant; submediant^, subdominant^; octave, tetrachord^; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase. concord, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... immediately from semiquavers to demisemiquavers, as in this example, or from these to the next in degree—that would be doubling the velocity of the shake all at once, which would be a skip, not a graduation; but you can imagine between a semiquaver and a demisemiquaver intermediate degrees of rapidity, quicker than the one, and slower than the other of these characters; you are therefore to increase in velocity by the same degrees in practising the shake, as in loudness when you make a swell. You must attentively ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart



Words linked to "Semiquaver" :   sixteenth note, musical note, tone



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