half note

Historical Examples of half-note

• But if a man may falter, shall we not forgive to a trombone even a half-note?

  From the Easy Chair, vol. 1

  George William Curtis

• It may safely be said however that the sign always indicates that a half-note has a beat.

  Music Notation and Terminology

  Karl W. Gehrkens

• The suspension, instead of being sustained as a half-note, may be repeated on the second quarter, as at c.

  A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

  Friedrich J. Lehmann

• For the present the suspension should not be less than a half-note or its rhythmic equivalent in the ornamental resolution.

  A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

  Friedrich J. Lehmann

• A half-note with one dot lasts three-quarters, with two dots it lasts seven-eighths.

  Piano Playing

  Josef Hofmann