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Half Note

Definition: Half Note

Half Note

Noun

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

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

Synonym: Half Note

Synonym: minim (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Half note

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In music, a half note or minim is a note played for one half the duration of a whole note, hence the name. Half notes are notated with a hollow oval note head (like a whole note) and a straight note stem with no flags (like a quarter note; see Figure 1). A similar symbol is the half rest, which denotes a silence for the same duration. Half rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles sitting on top of the middle line of the musical staff. As with all notes with stems, half notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of the 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 half note with stem facing up, a half note with stem facing down, and a half rest.


See also: whole note, quarter 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 "Half note."
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Crosswords: Half Note
English words defined with "half note": Demicadence, Demiquaver, Dotted note ♦ flat ♦ minim ♦ Quarter note ♦ Sensible note, sharp ♦ Wisdom tooth. (references)
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Commercial Usage: Half Note
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Music
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Image Slideshow: Half Note
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Modern Translations: Half Note
Language Translations for "half note"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech
  
pùlová nota (minim). (various references)
   
Finnish
  
puolinuotti (minim), puolinen (minim). (various references)
   
French
  
blanche (happy trails). (various references)
   
German
  
halbe note (minim). (various references)
   
Italian
  
minima (minim). (various references)
   
Japanese Kanji 
  
二分音符  (minim). (various references)
   
Japanese Katakana 
  
にぶお"ぷ (minim), にぶ"お"ぷ (minim). (various references)
   
Pig Latin
  
alfhay otenay.(various references)
   
Portuguese
  
meia-lua (demilune, menopause). (various references)
   
Serbo-Croatian
  
poluton (halftone, semitone). (various references)
   
Spanish
  
blanca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, minim, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references)
   
Swedish
  
halvnot (minim). (various references)
   
Ukranian 
  
половинна нота. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.
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Misspellings: Half Note
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"Half Note" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: halfnote. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
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Anagrams: Half Note
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
Direct Anagrams: halftone.
Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-l-n-o-t"
-1 letter: anethol, ethanol.
-2 letters: enhalo, etalon, foetal, folate, fontal, hantle, loathe, thenal, tolane.
-3 letters: aloft, alone, altho, anole, atone, felon, fetal, float, flota, foehn, haole, helot, hotel, laten, lathe, leant, lento, loath, lotah, neath, notal, oaten, often, talon, thane, thole, tolan, tonal.
-4 letters: aeon, alef, aloe, alto, ante, eath, elan, enol, etna, fane, fano, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, flan, flat, flea, floe, foal, fohn, font, haen, haet, haft, hale, half, halo, halt, hant, hate, heal, heat, heft, helo, hent, hole, holt, hone, lane, late, lath, leaf, lean, left, leno, lent, loaf, loan, loft, lone, lota, loth, neat, noel, nota, note, oath, olea, tael, tale, teal, tela, thae, than, then, toea, tola, tole, tone.
-5 letters: aft, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, eat, eft, elf, eon, eta, eth, fan, fat, feh, fen, fet, foe, foh, fon, hae, hao, hat, hen, het, hoe, hon, hot, lat, lea, let, lot, nae, nah, net, noh, not, nth, oaf, oat, oft, ole, one, tae, tan, tao, tea, tel, ten, the, tho, toe, ton.
 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-l-n-o-t"
 
+1 letter: halftones.
 
+4 letters: unfathomable.
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Alternative Orthography: Half Note

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)
48 61 6C 66      4E 6F 74 65
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
    
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)
01001000 01100001 01101100 01100110 00100000 01001110 01101111 01110100 01100101
HTML Code (1990) (references)
&#72  &#97  &#108  &#102  &#32  &#78  &#111  &#116  &#101
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)
0048 0061 006C 0066      004E 006F 0074 0065
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)
42677872248818671
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INDEX
 1. Definition 
 2. Synonyms 
 3. Crosswords 
 4. Usage: Commercial 		 5. Images: Slideshow 
 6. Translations: Modern 
 7. Derivations 
 8. Anagrams 		 9. Orthography 
 10. Bibliography 


  
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