semiquaver|semiquavers in English

noun

sixteenth note, musical note with 1/16 the value of a whole note (Music)

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1. The rapid bowed quavers of the former become the rapid staccato semiquavers of the latter.

2. Similarly, at bar 74 the semiquaver upbeat to the third beat should probably be executed as a triplet upbeat to those that follow in the right hand.

3. Practice rhythmic literacy and notation-reading skills with this great bingo game! Use it as a starter or lesson activity to embed understanding of rhythms using minims, Crotchets, quavers and semiquavers

4. The piano puts a momentary end to its own fury with a barely feasible manoeuvre, both hands jumping up three or four octaves simultaneously and fortissimo in the time of a semiquaver.

5. 8 A barely audible ff septuplet of semiquaver chords and two rabid glissandi are thrown in by the soloist, before piano and bass section end the movement in five different Gs.

6. It will be noticed that the form of the notes is the same whether whole or divided into fractions; that is, there are no different forms for "Crotchets," "quavers," "semiquavers

7. VIl - a toccata for the whole ensemble in regular semiquavers - this is pulled about by sudden accelerandi and ritardandi (as if the music were being stretched and compressed like an elastic band) before a final accelerando catapults the music into the briefest section in the work.

8. It is, with the exception of the Prelude and the Air, the only movement of the Suite which has not originated in a dance-form.The Allemande is a piece of moderate rapidity—about an allegretto—in common time, and commencing usually with one short note, generally a quaver or semiquaver, at the end of