note value

British  

noun

1. another term for time value

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Example Sentences

The crop of historical characters on the current series of circulating notes, in ascending order of note value, are Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner and Alan Turing.

From BBC

Sorey also aspires to an ideal in which note values — how long a player expresses each particular sound — is crucially important.

From Seattle Times

But five is more challenging, and I also thought, What if the tempo never changed, but the note values changed, and that’s how you set off movements?

From New York Times

Before leaving isorhythm, there is a footnote to be added about the way it is organised as strings of note values.

From Literature

It is impossible to walk down the street and not assign note values to pitched sounds — be it a traffic officer’s whistle or an elevator’s arrival tone.

From New York Times