thirty-second note

American

noun

Music.

a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.

thirty-second note British

noun

Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): demisemiquaver. music a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve

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Origin of thirty-second note

First recorded in 1885–90

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thirty-second note

For example: an eighth-note rest dotted equals an eighth note and a sixteenth; and followed by two dots it equals an eighth, a sixteenth and a thirty-second note in time.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

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