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noun Music.
a note having one eighth of the time value of a whole note; quaver.
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Origin of eighth note

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby eighth note

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How to use eighth note in a sentence

  • Sixteenth-notes may be used in place of the eighth-note, but should be approached and left step-wise.

    A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons|Friedrich J. Lehmann

  • The second and third movements each occupy the duration of an eighth-note.

    The Fascinating Boston|Alfonso Josephs Sheafe

  • 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.

    The Shadow World|Hamlin Garland

  • In a slow tempo it may serve you to think of the second eighth-note of the triplet as being subdivided into two sixteenths.

    Piano Playing|Josef Hofmann

British Dictionary definitions for eighth note

eighth note
noun
US and Canadian music a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreveAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): quaver
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