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eighth note
noun
, Music.
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a note having one eighth of the time value of a whole note; quaver.
eighth note
noun
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music a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreve Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)quaver
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Word History and Origins
Origin of eighth note1
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences
Sixteenth-notes may be used in place of the eighth-note, but should be approached and left step-wise.
From Project Gutenberg
The second and third movements each occupy the duration of an eighth-note.
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In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.
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In a slow tempo it may serve you to think of the second eighth-note of the triplet as being subdivided into two sixteenths.
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