semiquaver

• 50c.; a semiquaver, 15 sous; a demisemiquaver, 7-1/2 sous. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831
• The young ladies and Mr. Frederick had had thirty rehearsals of their grand arias and concertos, and were perfect to a demi-semiquaver; Jack Richards would _certainly_ come; and the only drawback upon Mr. Bagshaw's personal enjoyment -- but nothing in this world is perfect -- was the necessity he was under of wearing his green shade, which would totally deprive him of the pleasure of contemplating the beauties of the Thames scenery, -- a thing he had set his heart upon. —  Stories of Comedy
• Or a small semiquaver —  The Way of All Flesh
• But you must not vigorously move immediately from semiquavers to demisemiquavers, as in this example, or from these to the next in degree -- that would be doubling the velocity of the shake all at once, which would be a skip, not a graduation; but you can imagine between a semiquaver and a demisemiquaver intermediate degrees of rapidity, quicker than the one, and slower than the other of these characters; you are therefore to increase in velocity by the same degrees in practising the shake, as in loudness when you make a swell. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• Here it is the clatter and bustle of coming into port that is represented; people hurrying about the deck, the young sailors 'motive joyously ringing from the violins and wood, sailors hauling, and the colours fluttering in the breeze (semiquaver motives in clarinets and bassoons), all are preparing for the shore. —  Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama

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