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Musical note duration
An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative
Eighth_note
Musical note duration
lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of
Two_hundred_fifty-sixth_note
Style of jazz performance
≈1:1 = eighth note + eighth note, "straight eighths." play example ≈3:2 = long eighth + short eighth. play example ≈2:1 = triplet quarter note + triplet
Swing_time
Topics referred to by the same term
whole Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) Octave, an interval between seventh and ninth Eighth octave
Eighth
Representation of isolatable musical sound
to sound them) instead of pitch. Note value expresses the relative duration of the note in time. Dynamics for a note indicate how loud to play them. Articulations
Musical_note
Musical note duration
music, a hundred twenty-eighth note (North American) or semihemidemisemiquaver or quasihemidemisemiquaver (British) is a note played for 1⁄128 of the
Hundred_twenty-eighth_note
Musical note duration
In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the duration of an eighth note (quaver), hence the names.
Sixteenth_note
Musical notation
cases one might tie two notes that could be written with a single note value, such as a quarter note tied to an eighth note (the same length as a dotted
Tie_(music)
Emphasis on a note
a note should be silenced to create separation between it and the following note. For example, a written quarter note should be played as an eighth note
Accent_(music)
Musical note duration
duration as a sixty-fourth note. Notes shorter than a sixty-fourth note are very rarely used, though the hundred twenty-eighth note—otherwise known as the
Sixty-fourth_note
Type of beat-subdividing rhythm in music
quarter note is 2⁄3 the duration of a standard quarter note. Similarly, three triplet eighth notes (quavers) are equal in duration to one quarter note. If
Tuplet
Rhythmic pattern played on drums
quarter note pulse in (quad)duple time: each measure is formed from (two groups of) two quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into two eighth notes. This
Drum_beat
6). Likewise, any note length can be used to represent a beat, but a quarter note (indicated by a bottom number of 4) or eighth note (bottom number of
List_of_musical_symbols
Basic unit of time in music and music theory
these various rhythms a bass drum strike on the downbeat and a constant eighth note subdivision on ride cymbal have been added, which would be counted as
Beat_(music)
Specification of beats in a musical bar/measure
corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth note (quaver), 16 to the sixteenth note (semiquaver). The upper
Time_signature
Sign that indicates the relative duration of a note
long note of indefinite duration, as at the end of a piece (e.g. at the end of Mozart's Mass KV 192). A single eighth note, or any faster note, is always
Note_value
Musical note duration
the length of a half note, and twice that of an eighth note. It represents one beat in a bar of 4 4 time. The term "quarter note" is a calque (loan-translation)
Quarter_note
Electronic musical synthesizer
musical synthesizer. Shaped like an eighth note, the ribbon controller on its stem is used to control pitch, while the notes produced by the synthesizer are
Otamatone
Musical performance practice
apply an even greater amount of inequality to dotted eighth–sixteenth note pairs than to eighth–eighth pairs, which are already understood to be played unequally
Notes_inégales
Topics referred to by the same term
the month, a recurring calendar date Sixteenth note, a note played for half the duration of an eighth note 16th birthday, the age of majority in several
Sixteenth
Musical system of regularly occurring sounds
Quarter Note: Ta 2 Eighth Note: Ta Te 4 Sixteenth Notes: Tafa Tefe Whole Note: Ta-a-a-a or to-o-o-o Half Note: Ta-a or too Quarter Note: Ta 1 Eighth Note: Ti
Counting_(music)
Type of musical ornamentation
principal note is a quarter note, the grace notes may be notated as an eighth note, two sixteenth notes, four thirty-second notes, eight sixty-fourth notes, etc
Grace_note
1964 musical composition by Terry Riley
coordination of tempo and rhythm. Steve Reich suggested using a steady eighth note pulse throughout to keep the ensemble together. Though Riley envisioned
In_C
Original song written and composed by Ann Ronell
eighth notes and an eighth-note triplet opening in each of the first four bars to just four eighth notes opening the fifth, then back to two eighth notes
Willow_Weep_for_Me
Musical composition by Pachelbel
rhythms and sixteenth-note patterns on upper neighbor notes (bars 47–50) syncopated quarter- and eighth-note rhythm (bars 51–56) eighth-note octave leaps Pachelbel's
Pachelbel's_Canon
Six string quartets by Joseph Haydn
staccato eighth notes followed by eighth-note rests, while the viola and cello fill in the violins' eighth-note rests with their own eighth notes. This sets
String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn)
String_Quartets,_Op._76_(Haydn)
Simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms
as simply quarter note, eighth note, eighth note, quarter note. The proper way is to establish sound bases for both the quarter-notes, and the triplet-quarters
Polyrhythm
Musical note duration
the bottom of the stem and curve up. When multiple thirty-second notes or eighth notes (or sixteenths, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected
Thirty-second_note
Type of metric change in music
quarter note is divided in two by a ride pattern (eighth note). "Half"-time refers to halving this division (divide each measure into quarter notes with
Half-time_(music)
Composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
fugue. Recordings of tied eighth notes Alban Berg Quartett Emphasis on the first eighth note. Emerson String Quartet Eighth notes are played as distinctly
Grosse_Fuge
1783 composition by W. A. Mozart
sixteenth-note melody followed by a falling eighth note melody over a staccato eighth-note accompaniment. A melody in thirds and eighth notes is played
Piano_Sonata_No._11_(Mozart)
Visual representation of music
common symbols: U+2669 ♩ QUARTER NOTE U+266A ♪ EIGHTH NOTE U+266B ♫ BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES U+266C ♬ BEAMED SIXTEENTH NOTES U+266D ♭ MUSIC FLAT SIGN U+266E
Musical_notation
eighth note G4. Dieu (God): Whole note B4 / Eighth note A4 / Sixteenth note E♭4 / Eighth note A♭3 / Eighth note B♭3 / Eighth note E4 / Dotted eighth note F♯4
Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité
Méditations_sur_le_Mystère_de_la_Sainte_Trinité
One thousandth of a second
European 50 Hz AC electricity 31.25 milliseconds – a hundred twenty-eighth note at 60 BPM 33.367 milliseconds – the amount of time one frame lasts in
Millisecond
Thick line used to connect notes in musical notation
used to connect multiple consecutive notes (and occasionally rests) to indicate rhythmic grouping. Only eighth notes (quavers) or shorter can be beamed
Beam_(music)
Musical notation for group singing
a tone apart. The fourth to sixth notes are also a tone apart and are also fa, sol, la. The seventh and eighth notes, being separated by a semitone, are
Shape_note
System of music education
expressed by the syllable ta while eighth note (quaver) pairs are expressed using the syllables ti-ti. Larger note values are expressed by extending ta
Kodály_method
Style of Brazilian music
is pushed by an eighth note. Also important in the percussion section for bossa nova is the cabasa, which plays a steady sixteenth-note pattern. These
Bossa_nova
Cuban/Caribbean rhythmic cell
throughout sub-Saharan Africa. It consists of an eighth, a sixteenth, an eighth, a sixteenth, and an eighth note. Placing this rhythm in a 2/4 measure produces
Cinquillo
American composer (born 1936)
involved with the premiere of Riley's In C and suggested the use of the eighth note pulse, which is now standard in performance of the piece. Reich's early
Steve_Reich
1982 single by Golden Earring
beginning as an "eighth-note pulse" of B D E D B followed by a sixteenth note and dotted eighth-note, D and E, and another D which is an eighth note. Renshaw
Twilight Zone (Golden Earring song)
Twilight_Zone_(Golden_Earring_song)
Piano sonata composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
key, A♭ minor, but is mostly dedicated to the second subject and its eighth-note accompaniment (mm. 55–73), first in its original form, then exchanging
Piano Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)
Piano_Sonata_No._1_(Beethoven)
Beat or rhythm in heavy metal songs
traditional heavy metal songs. It is created by playing an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes (), usually on rhythm guitar, drums, or bass. Gallop
Heavy_metal_gallop
Keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach
where one hand plays a string of eighth notes and the other accompanies by plucking sixteenth notes after each eighth note. To demonstrate this, here are
Goldberg_Variations
Percussion element
a louder, brighter tone than in most ride-cymbal bells. Eighth-note ride pattern Eighth-note ride pattern (left) Problems playing this file? See media
Ride_cymbal
American record label
Grammy Awards and 88 Grammy nominations. The original logo, a stylized eighth note incorporating the C and J of "Concord Jazz", was created by Bay Area
Concord_Records
National anthem of Italy
a dotted eighth note and a sixteenth note: Some performances soften this rhythmic scan by equalizing the note durations (as an eighth note), for ease
Il_Canto_degli_Italiani
Music genre
disco ensemble. Before funk, most pop music was based on sequences of eighth notes, because the fast tempos made further subdivisions of the beat infeasible
Funk
2000 contemporary piece for concert band written by Eric Whitacre
divisions of duple rhythms, ranging from whole notes to eighth notes. The last of these, the eighth note, dominates the first half of the piece, occurring
October_(Whitacre)
1866 waltz by Johann Strauss II
repeated. A more dour waltz 3A is introduced in G major before a fleeting eighth-note melodic phrase (waltz 3B). A loud Intrada (introduction) in G minor is
The_Blue_Danube
Off-beat rhythm
in the first bar is shifted back by an eighth note (or quaver): Note how in the sound bite, the piano's notes do not happen at the same time as the drum
Syncopation
Banjo playing style
quarter note on the downbeat, Other strings strummed with the fingers, for a total of roughly an eighth note starting on the upbeat, A thumbpicked eighth note
Clawhammer
Folk dance and tune
pattern of a quarter note followed by an eighth note (twice per 6 8 bar), whereas the pattern for the double jig is three eighth notes twice per 6 8 bar
Jig
Process of aligning text to a musical rhythm
lower degree. A quarter note can be divided into two eighth notes The first eighth note is strong, the second is weak. A quarter note can be divided into
Lyric_setting
Any musical scale used in jazz
rhythmically evenly within a 4 4 measure of 8 eighth notes, thus making it useful in practicing. When an eighth note bebop scale run starts on the beat from
Jazz_scale
Stringed musical instrument
that consist of eight (eighth) notes that subdivide each measure. Drone notes are quick little notes (typically eighth notes), usually played on the
Banjo
Guitar playing technique
picking a note (except when the gap lasts longer than one full up-down motion). In this manner, an up-beat (such as an even-numbered eighth note or, at faster
Alternate_picking
Series of Android smartphones, mobile computing device and Android applications
playing a B4 dotted eighth note, a B4 sixteenth note, an F#5 sixteenth note, a B5 sixteenth note, an A#5 eighth note, and an F#5 half note". Comparison of
Samsung_Galaxy
Irish rock musician, bassist of U2 (born 1960)
this technique, Clayton plays a consistent rhythm that stresses the eighth note of each bar, but he "anticipates the harmony by shifting the tonality"
Adam_Clayton
Berimbau rhythms accompanying the Brazilian martial art
single eighth notes. An eighth note is 1/2 a beat. = A slur (press the dobrão against the arame without striking with the other hand) = A quarter note rest
Capoeira_toques
Gene Kelly's feature films. His musicals are indicated with a beamed eighth note symbol (♫). Choreography credits per Billman. "Gene Kelly — Anatomy of
Gene_Kelly_filmography
Piano composition by Johannes Brahms
in support throughout, three quarter-note chords to each bar setting the pace followed by a rhythmic eighth-note chord leading to the next bar and emphasizing
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
Variations_and_Fugue_on_a_Theme_by_Handel
Orchestral work by Antonín Dvořák
The second violins and cellos introduce the lyrical main theme over an eighth note pulse in the violas. The theme is traded back and forth, and the second
Serenade_for_Strings_(Dvořák)
1832 set of three solo piano pieces
characterize Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of eighth notes in simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand
Nocturnes,_Op._9_(Chopin)
Type of musical note
A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord
Nonchord_tone
1972 composition by Steve Reich
pattern, but after every eight or twelve bars shifts ahead by one eighth note, skipping one note or rest in the pattern. The two performers continue this process
Clapping_Music
English musician (born 1960)
song, "Mirror in the Bathroom", is largely built on top of the driving, eighth-note bass line that runs through the entire song. Fine Young Cannibals had
David_Steele_(musician)
Incarnation of lead character in Doctor Who
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Paul
Eighth_Doctor
Way of playing a stringed instrument
pattern in common time or 4 4 consisting of alternating down and up eighth note strokes may be written: 1&2&3&4& dudududu The pattern most typical of
Strum
Cuban music style, rhythm
first eighth note of the first measure, then the left foot steps on the third eighth note of the first measure, the right again on the first eighth note of
Conga_(music)
Pattern used in Latin American music
ISBN 9780520254862. Shown in common time and then in cut time with tied sixteenth & eighth note rather than rest. Sublette, Ned (2007), Cuba and Its Music: From the
Tresillo_(rhythm)
with beat values of a minim/half note (e.g. 2 2, 3 2) should be performed with a slow tempo; those with quaver/eighth note beats (e.g. 3 8) are fast; while
Tempo_giusto
Series of musical beats
non-isochronal (a stream of 2+3... at eighth-note level would create a pulse of a quarter note+dotted quarter note as its multiple level). Composite rhythm
Pulse_(music)
1971 song by Pink Floyd
added echoes will produce a pattern of quarter note – eighth note, quarter note – eighth note. Pink Floyd would again use this technique on the bass
One of These Days (instrumental)
One_of_These_Days_(instrumental)
Half back position in rugby league
Five-eighth or stand-off is one of the positions in a rugby league football team. Wearing jersey number 6, this player is one of the two half-backs in
Five-eighth
of four cycles in a western 12/8 meter with all notes falling exactly on one of the twelve eighth-note subdivisions. However the beginning of the cycle
Kushaura
Musical notation system used in Asia since the 19th century
represents a quarter note (crotchet). Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver)
Numbered_musical_notation
Computer algorithm
complicated example of its powers." The particular algorithm used in Note G generates the eighth Bernoulli number (labelled as B 7 {\displaystyle B_{7}} , as
Note_G
1948 music composition by Milton Babbitt
dotted half note followed by a sixteenth note (the opening 'interval' of duration set P0) and an eighth note followed by a dotted eighth note (the opening
Composition for Twelve Instruments
Composition_for_Twelve_Instruments
Guitar playing technique
used in a technique called sweep picking, or 'raking'. Extremely fast eighth-note downstroke picking was used in the mid 1970s and beyond by punk guitarist
Downpicking
is based on a polyrhythm, with pairs of eighth-note (quaver) triplets in the right hand against quarter-note (crotchet) triplets in the left. Johannes
Étude_Op._25,_No._2_(Chopin)
Rhythmic or melodic unit in music
sixteenth & eighth note rather than rest. Sublette, Ned (2007). Cuba and Its Music, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-632-9. Shown with tied sixteenth & eighth note rather
Cell_(music)
Polish lively triple-meter musical form with accents on beats two and three
either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes (crotchets). In the 19th century
Mazurka
Keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach
bars 57–59 through a larger A–C–E triad, within which the bass motion on each eighth note expresses smaller chordal fragments. Kerman describes the third episode
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903
Chromatic_Fantasia_and_Fugue,_BWV_903
1785 composition by W. A. Mozart, the "Dissonance Quartet"
Allegro (Trio in C minor) Allegro molto The 22-bar Adagio opens with quiet eighth note Cs in the cello. It is joined by the viola on A♭ and the second violin
String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._19_(Mozart)
Crusade against Ifriqiya in 1270
The Eighth Crusade was the second Crusade launched by Louis IX of France, this one against the Hafsid dynasty in Tunisia in 1270. It is also known as the
Eighth_Crusade
Technique providing rhythm and harmony to an ensemble
the notes A, C and E. Interspersed are some four-note chords, which include the root, third and fifth, as well as a sixth, seventh or ninth note of the
Rhythm_guitar
Aspect of music
of 4 4: The syncopation may then be added, moving "night" forward one eighth note, and the first phrase is generated.[citation needed] With polymetre,
Metre_(music)
1969 song performed by The Original Caste
of Pachelbel's Canon. However, the two pieces diverge at the eighth chord and eighth note of each part, respectively. The remainder of "One Tin Soldier"
One_Tin_Soldier
Music notation software for jazz solo
x8 x8 with x4 signifying a quarter-note hit and x8 an eighth-note hit. The swung note aspect, wherein eighth-notes on the beat get approximately twice
Impro-Visor
done in a 2/4 time signature, starting with two eighth-note and the following beat being a quarter note. This beat is kept by the drums and allows for
Music_of_Honduras
Music genre
thus, the measure is one eighth note, then an eighth rest, then two eighth notes, an eighth rest, then a final eighth note. The euphonium often carries
American_march_music
Piano works by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Allegretto section uses a general rhyme of two sixteenth notes and one eighth note. This section climaxes at a sudden change in the meter with rhythmic
Eleven_Bagatelles,_Op._119
leading note The seventh note of a scale, which has a powerful "gravitational pull" towards the eighth note of the scale, which is the "home note" of the
Glossary of jazz and popular music
Glossary_of_jazz_and_popular_music
Abbreviations used in music notation
number of strokes denotes the subdivision of the written note into eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc., unless the word tremolo or tremolando is added,
Abbreviation_(music)
Traditional hornpipe melody
notated in B-flat major. The anacrusis is most commonly played as an eighth note pivot from the tonic to the leading tone which resolves back to the tonic
The_Sailor's_Hornpipe
Irish and Welsh rock musician, U2 guitarist (born 1961)
Edge's guitar sound is frequently modulated with a delay set to a dotted eighth note for rhythmic effect. After acquiring his first delay pedal, the Electro-Harmonix
The_Edge
System for teaching rhythm skills
syllables are also assigned to specific rhythmic patterns. For example, an eighth note is called ‘ti’ whether it is on the attack of the beat or in the middle
Takadimi
Bluegrass music picking pattern
roll or roll is a pattern played by the banjo that uses a repeating eighth-note arpeggio – a broken chord – that by subdividing the beat 'keeps time'
Banjo_roll
Composition for piano by Frédéric Chopin
general pace, the irregular melody is in quarter notes except for a few flourishes in eighth notes, giving this section the quality of an interlude before
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin)
Waltz_in_C-sharp_minor,_Op._64,_No._2_(Chopin)
EIGHTH NOTE
EIGHTH NOTE
Boy/Male
French American
Born eighth.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a nickname for a strong man.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Wight.
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Eighth
Boy/Male
Latin
Born eighth.
Boy/Male
Latin American
Eighth.
Girl/Female
British, English
Prosperity; Battle
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Light Weight; Tall and Pretty
Boy/Male
English
From the hillslope meadow.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Light of the Right
Girl/Female
Arabic, Finnish, Indian, Swedish
Shining Light; Lights
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Eighth (an eight-stringed instrument).
Girl/Female
Latin
Born eighth.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a happy, cheerful person, from Middle English lyght, Old English lēoht ‘light’ (not dark), ‘bright’, ‘cheerful’.English : nickname for someone who was busy and active, from Middle English lyght, Old English līoht ‘light’ (not heavy), ‘nimble’, ‘quick’. The two words lēoht and līoht were originally distinct, but they were confused in English from an early period.English : nickname for a small person, from Middle English lite, Old English l̄t ‘little’, influenced by lyght as in 1 and 2.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Indian
A Light of Fight
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Hight.
Girl/Female
Italian American Latin Shakespearean
Born eighth.
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Light; Night of Diwali; Possessor of Lights
Girl/Female
British, English
Prosperity; Battle
EIGHTH NOTE
EIGHTH NOTE
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Start; Mother of Shri Shankaracharya
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Lord Shiva / Vishnu
Boy/Male
Tamil
Desired
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
The Moon; Fire
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Demolisher of Obstacles
Girl/Female
Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Pathway
Boy/Male
Indian
The all-encompassing, The all-embracing
Girl/Female
Danish, German, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Swedish
Answer to My Prayer; God has Favored Me
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Elder Tree
EIGHTH NOTE
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EIGHTH NOTE
a.
Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
v. t.
To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
v. t.
A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
v. t.
To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
v. t.
A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
v. t.
To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
n.
The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
n.
The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
n.
A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
superl.
Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin.
a.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
n.
Variant of Height.
adv.
As the eighth in order.
n.
A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
v. i.
To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; -- with up; as, the room lights up very well.
n.
Weight.
a.
Eight times ten; fourscore.
a.
Seven and one; as, eight years.
n.
The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
superl.
Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.