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Quarter Note

Definition: Quarter Note

Quarter Note

Noun

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

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


Synonym: Quarter Note

Synonym: crotchet (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Quarter note

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In music, a quarter note or crotchet is a note played for one-quarter the duration of a whole note, hence the name. Quarter notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight stem with no flags (see Figure 1). A similar symbol is the quarter rest, which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, quarter 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. 



Figure 1. A quarter note with stem facing up, a quarter note with stem facing down, and a quarter rest.


See also: whole note, half note, eighth note, musical notation


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quarter note."
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Modern Translation: Quarter Note
Language Translations for "quarter note"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian
  
notë çerekëshe. (various references)
   
Arabic 
  
‏النغمة الربعية موسيقى. (various references)
   
Bulgarian 
  
четвъртина нота (crotchet). (various references)
   
Czech
  
ètvrtinka. (various references)
   
French
  
noire. (various references)
   
German
  
Viertelnote (crotchet). (various references)
   
Hebrew 
  
רבע תו. (various references)
   
Hungarian
  
negyed hangjegy (crotchet). (various references)
   
Italian
  
quartina (quatrain). (various references)
   
Japanese Kanji 
  
四分音符  (crotchet). (various references)
   
Japanese Katakana 
  
しぶお"ぷ (crotchet), しぶ"お"ぷ (crotchet). (various references)
   
Pig Latin
  
arterquay otenay
   
Portuguese
  
quarto de nota. (various references)
   
Russian 
  
четвертная нота. (various references)
   
Spanish
  
negra (black woman, crotchet, negress). (various references)
   
Swedish
  
fjärdedelsnot (crotchet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.
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Anagrams: Quarter Note
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-o-q-r-r-t-t-u"
-3 letters: outeaten, quartern, rattener, renature, rottener, torquate.
-4 letters: entreat, equator, outearn, outrate, quarter, quartet, ratteen, reroute, retreat, reutter, taunter, ternate, terrane, torquer, torrent, torture, treater, utterer.
-5 letters: atoner, attorn, attune, earner, entera, equate, errant, natter, nature, nearer, neater, netter, neuter, notate, nutate, nutter, ornate, outate, outeat, outran, quaere, quarte, quarto, quatre, quoter, ranter, ratten.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX
 1. Definition 
 2. Synonyms 
 3. Images: Slideshow 
 4. Translations: Modern 		 5. Anagrams 
 6. Bibliography 


  
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