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Sixteenth note
Answer for the clue "Sixteenth note ", 10 letters:
semiquaver
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Word definitions for semiquaver in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semiquaver \Sem"i*qua`ver\ (s[e^]m"[i^]*kw[=a]`v[~e]r), n. (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sixteenth-note," 1570s, from semi- + quaver (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note [syn: sixteenth note ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The rapid bowed quavers of the former become the rapid staccato semiquavers of the latter.
Usage examples of semiquaver.
The tunes and the themes were all hurried, sketched with not a semiquaver more than necessary, the page balanced by a hand or a knee, yet the music was always captured with ease and precision.
I want a semiquaver figure for the violins, varied and repeated throughout the movement.
Alison is accepting when he has problems keeping to the beat and when he plays semiquavers as quavers.
Alison is accepting when he has problems keeping to the beat and when he plays semiquavers as quavers.