sixteenth note in English

noun
1
a note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note or half an eighth note, represented by a large dot with a two-hooked stem.
In addition to quarters, eighths and sixteenth notes , triplets and dotted rhythms are used tastefully and add variety.

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1. The first is the eighth note triplet shuffle and the second is the sixteenth note triplet or the half-time shuffle feel.

2. The Bitonal piano part is built on two ostinato figures: staccato eighth-note chords that become simply staccato eighth notes in the left hand, depicting the grasshopper; and a busy sixteenth-note figure in the right hand that pictures the ceaseless work of the ant …