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Definition of Eighth note

Eighth note
Eighth Eighth, a. [AS. eahto?a.] 1. Next in order after the seventh. 2. Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note (Mus.), the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.

Meaning of Eighth note from wikipedia

- An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note pla**** for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative...
- music, a hundred twenty-eighth note (North American) or semihemidemisemiquaver or quasihemidemisemiquaver (British) is a note pla**** for 1⁄128 of the...
- ≈1:1 = eighth note + eighth note, "straight eighths." play example ≈3:2 = long eighth + short eighth. play example ≈2:1 = triplet quarter note + triplet...
- whole Eighth note (quaver), a musical note pla**** for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) Octave, an interval between seventh and ninth Eighth octave...
- Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the...
- In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note pla**** for half the duration of an eighth note (quaver), hence the names....
- lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of...
- a note should be silenced to create separation between it and the following note. For example, a written quarter note should be pla**** as an eighth note...
- the length of a half note, and twice that of an eighth note. It represents one beat in a bar of 4 4 time. The term "quarter note" is a calque (loan-translation)...
- thirty-second note (or demisemiquaver), hence the name. It first occurs in the late 17th century and, apart from rare occurrences of hundred twenty-eighth notes...