sixteenth-note

• “Just as Handel's chef d'oeuvre seems to have an impossible number of notes crammed onto a single page, our lives seem to have an impossible number of commitments and responsibilities crammed into a single day; our inboxes fill up at the rate sopranos sing the sixteenth-note runs.”

  The Huffington Post: Danielle Tumminio: Lowering Holiday Stress With The Help Of Handel's Messiah

• “Daneshpour dropped a few notes, especially in the devilish section of repeated sixteenth-note chords, but almost everyone does.”

  The Washington Post: In performance: Sara Daneshpour

• “Here we can see that there is an intriguing affinity between the number of immigrants in the United States and the preponderance of timbales, sixteenth-note triplets, and complex dance steps confounding our national sensibilities.”

  If I may have your attention please

• “It is clear from the autograph that Beethoven had difficulty in notating the rhythm of this passage: in the bars following Meno Allegro, he writes a sixteenth-note rest mistakenly for an eighth-note rest three times, although he managed to correct one of these errors in the manuscript.”

  Beethoven's Triumph'

• “If it begins with a sixteenth-note, do the same thing, but make the extra up-beat with which the first tone is to be coincident shorter and quicker.”

  Essentials in Conducting

• “No. 4 is a very impassioned presto in C-sharp minor, in which strong single notes and octaves occur, along with an insistent and very rapid sixteenth-note motion.”

  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations

• “Here, after a series of heavy chords, a sixteenth-note motion enters in octaves for the left hand, and for the right hand a melody, which is at first soft and afterward built up.”

  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations

• “One of the most curious of all these arrangements of Chopin's material is that of the late eminent organist, August Haupt, of Berlin, who arranged this fourth study in C-sharp minor for the organ for Mr. Clarence Eddy, by whom it is often played in concerts with an effect extremely remarkable, especially when the pedals have the sixteenth-note motion.”

  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations

• “The entire effect of the song and the accompaniment is extremely tender and delicate, one of the important features in the artistic effect being the arpeggios of the accompaniment, which is throughout in sixteenth-note motion, whereas the melody, in 6/8 time, runs in dotted quarters and eighths.”

  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations

• “You don't have to ask any questions in the form of cascading sixteenth-note runs at 160 bpm.”

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