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demisemiquavers

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  • noun Plural form of demisemiquaver.

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Examples

  • Esp. the ending part, whereby like there's running demisemiquavers with trills in them.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • 'And how are the semiquavers and the demisemiquavers progressing?' he always asks.

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • Performers playing stringed instruments will rarely give themselves the trouble to play a _tremolo_; they substitute for this very characteristic effect, a tame repetition of the note, half, and sometimes three-quarters slower than the one whence results the tremolo: instead of demisemiquavers, they make triple or double ones; and in lieu of producing sixty-four notes in a bar in four-time (adagio), they produce only thirty-two, or even sixteen.

    The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art Hector Berlioz 1836

  • After a brilliant symphony, performed by one of the young visitors, in which runs and crossings of demisemiquavers in _tempo prestissimo_ occupied the principal share, Mr. Falconer asked Miss Ilex how she liked it.

    Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • The song of the choristers died away in a shake of demisemiquavers, contrary to all the rules of psalmody.

    Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • The song of the choristers died away in a shake of demisemiquavers, contrary to all the rules of psalmody.

    Maid Marian 1822

  • 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 George Hart

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