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Eighth Note

Definition: Eighth Note

Eighth Note

Noun

1. A musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Eighth Note

Synonym: quaver (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Eighth note

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In music, an eighth note or a quaver is a note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note, hence the name. Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with one flag. (see Figure 1). A similar symbol is the eighth rest, which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, eighth notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of the musical staff. When they are on or above the middle line, they are drawn with stems on the left of the note head, facing down. Flags are always on the right side of the stem, and curve to the right.. On stems facing up, the flag starts at the top and curves down; for downward facing stems, the flags start at the bottom of the stem and curve up. When multiple eighth notes or sixteenth notes (or thirty-second notes, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected with a beam, like the notes in Figure 2.

Figure 1. An eighth note with stem facing up, an eighth note with stem facing down, and an eighth rest.

Figure 2. Four eighth notes beamed together.

See also: whole note, half note, quarter note, sixteenth note, musical notation

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eighth note."

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Crosswords: Eighth Note

English words defined with "eighth note": Consonancy ♦ Dotted note ♦ quaver. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eighth Note

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eighth note

10
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Modern Translations: Eighth Note

Language Translations for "eighth note"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

八分音符 (quaver). (various references)

   

German

  

achtelnote (quaver). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eighthay otenay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

åttondelsnot (quaver). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Eighth Note

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-t-t"

-2 letters: goethite, heighten, teething.

-3 letters: gothite, hotting, tighten, tonight.

-4 letters: eighth, ethion, ghetto, gotten, height, hoeing, hogtie, teeing, tentie, theine, toeing, toting.

-5 letters: eight, genet, genie, heigh, hight, hinge, ingot, neigh, night, ohing, teeth, tenet, tenge, tenth, thegn, thein, thigh, thine, thing, thong, tight, tigon, tinge, tithe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Eighth Note


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 69 67 68 74 68      4E 6F 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001110 01101111 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#104 &#32 &#78 &#111 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0069 0067 0068 0074 0068      004E 006F 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

397573748674248818671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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