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Conductors should mark the changes, and conduct them (beating the half-note, as much as possible); singers need only keep an even quarter-note pulse, whether duple or compound, and follow the natural rhythm and accentuation of the text.
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Notes start with a whole one and then get broken down into fractions -- half-note, quarter-note, eighth, etc., each has a different symbol, and they have funny names.
More on Music Steve Perry 2010
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The textural model is the repeated right-hand quarter-note chord, something Brian probably picked up from listening to Phil Spector records.
Our Prayer Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The textural model is the repeated right-hand quarter-note chord, something Brian probably picked up from listening to Phil Spector records.
Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Repeatedly the donkey's donkey larynx was issuing the first quarter-note of a bray, a hee-haw from which the haw and most of the hee had been scrunched and extinguished.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Repeatedly the donkey's donkey larynx was issuing the first quarter-note of a bray, a hee-haw from which the haw and most of the hee had been scrunched and extinguished.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg 1967
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Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg 1967
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Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg 1967
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Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg 1967
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