semiquaver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of semiquaver
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Schiff delivers it matter-of-factly, punctuated by his brief, semiquaver laugh.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2013
The voice, but for being perhaps a semiquaver deeper, is the very one that has moved millions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It commences, not, as in most cases, with the opening theme or figure of the first section, but with a group of semiquaver notes which appears later in that section.
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by J. S. (John South) Shedlock
And folks have now a taste so fine, A semiquaver breaks the line!
From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo
From time to time a curious syncopated semiquaver figure is heard in the upper part: it may be intended to represent sobbing.
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by J. S. (John South) Shedlock
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