semiquaver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of semiquaver
Example Sentences
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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
One is a rapid, sinuous, twisting, shifty semiquaver figure suggested by the unsubstantial, elusive logic-spinning of the clever one's braincraft.
From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard
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 Shedlock, J. S. (John South)
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 Shedlock, J. S. (John South)
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