Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thirty-second note.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical notation, a note relatively equivalent in time-value to half of a semiquaver; a thirty-second note. Its form is either a or b when alone, or c or d when in groups.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music a
thirty-second note , drawn as acrotchet with three tails.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
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Examples
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Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921
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Remember, you've got to begin on the demisemiquaver at the end of the bar -- only not too staccato, remember -- and allow for the pause.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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But you must not vigorously move immediately from semiquavers to demisemiquavers, as in this example, or from these to the next in degree -- that would be doubling the velocity of the shake all at once, which would be a skip, not a graduation; but you can imagine between a semiquaver and a demisemiquaver intermediate degrees of rapidity, quicker than the one, and slower than the other of these characters; you are therefore to increase in velocity by the same degrees in practising the shake, as in loudness when you make a swell.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
fbharjo commented on the word demisemiquaver
What about hemidemisemiquaver?
February 13, 2007