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Word of the day: for all you serious musicians... hemidemisemiquaver hem-ee-dem-ee-SEM-ee-kwey-ver noun Music. Chiefly British. a sixty-fourth note. Their gaiety consisted of ruling staves and copying a borrowed duet filled with hemidemisemiquavers. -- Patrick OBrian , Master and Commander , 1969 Anything could follow, a hemidemisemiquaver or a whole note; and the translator was charged with interpreting the score. -- Ward Just , The Translator , 1991 Hemidemisemiquaver entered English in the mid-1800s, as an extension of demisemiquave , a thirty-second note. A quaver is chiefly British word for an eighth note.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:18:32 +0000

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