Definition of Quaver. Meaning of Quaver. Synonyms of Quaver

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Definition of Quaver

Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Quavering.] [OE. quaven to shake, to tremble; cf. LG. quabbeln to shake, to be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. kwabbe, and E. quiver, v.] 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, v. t. To utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. --Addison.
Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, n. 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music. 2. (Mus.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Meaning of Quaver 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 to...
- Quavers are a deep-fried potato-based British snack food. Launched in the UK in 1968, they were originally made by Smith's in their factory on Newark...
- Quaver's Marvelous World of Music, commonly referred to on site as Quaver, Quaver Music, and Quaver's World is an educational music web site. It is used...
- value it corresponds with (e.g. quarter note and quarter rest, or quaver and quaver rest), and each of them has a distinctive sign. Rests are intervals...
- Quaver Nunatak (71°0′S 70°17′W / 71.000°S 70.283°W / -71.000; -70.283) is a small nunatak rising to about 250 m, lying in the northernmost exposure...
- section of chords and (mainly) quavers for 33 bars. There are then trills for one bar and another quaverquaver rest–quaverquaver rest pattern with a straight...
- occasionally rests) to indicate rhythmic grouping. Only eighth notes (quavers) or shorter can be beamed. The number of beams is equal to the number of...
- correctly pla**** in traditional art music as a lightly articulated semi-quaver (sixteenth note) followed by rests which fill the remainder of the beat...
- half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth note (quaver), 16 to the sixteenth note (semiquaver). The upper numeral indicates how...
- the galloping effect by repeated figures of crotchet and quaver, or sometimes three quavers, overlying the binary tremolo of the semiquavers in the piano...