Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical notation, same as
hemi-demisemiquaver .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music
hemidemisemiquaver (a 64th note)
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
semi- + demisemiquaver
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word semidemisemiquaver.
Examples
-
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
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.