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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British A sixty-fourth note.

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  1. n. music a sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.

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  • “He told us that it was very important to know that the hemidemisemiquaver is the British name for the sixty-fourth note," the letter says.”

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  • “Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver.”

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  • “Only in the centuries-old organ world could a half-decade seem but a hemidemisemiquaver.”

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  • “I win 840 grains of rice and learn the word hemidemisemiquaver.”

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  • hernesheir In all my years I've yet to see any sheet music with a 32nd, 64th or note of smaller duration actually notated, regardless of its multi-prefixed name.

    What is the word for 1/108th, 1/216th or 1/432nd of a quaver, a.k.a. quarter note or crochet, or semiminim?

    For giggles, and others to determine: What is the limit at which the human ear/brain cannot distinguish between two or more successive sounds? Jan 4, 2009

  • smeggo Id est "nota bene". Don't punk my pun. Oct 15, 2008

  • bilby Preferred form is nota benissimissimissima. Oct 10, 2008

  • smeggo Nota benissississimo. Oct 10, 2008

  • reesetee Yes. ;-) Oct 5, 2007

  • skipvia I like words that are whole sentences all to themselves. Oct 5, 2007

  • skipvia Ah...the 64th ousand dollar question. Oct 1, 2007

  • humblegod A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.) Dec 10, 2006

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