semiquaver
IPA: sɛmɪkwˈeɪvɝ
noun
- (music) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
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Examples of "semiquaver" in Sentences
- She knew it off by heart - every bar, every semiquaver, every harmony.
- There's this 8 note semiquaver part that's damn damn fast and i still cant get it right.
- He was the only one who could not sing a note, and his rank was dotted demi-semiquaver rest.
- One is a rapid, sinuous, twisting, shifty semiquaver figure suggested by the unsubstantial, elusive logic-spinning of the clever one's braincraft.
- Kate, who did not know a crotchet from a semiquaver, grew frightened at this talk of trying over accompaniments, and tried to stammer out some apologies and excuses.
- 'I am the breve, Carlo here is the semibreve, he is the crotchet, he is the quaver, and that lad in the sea is a semiquaver, and little Piero here is a demi-semiquaver.
- And farther on, in the part of the polonaise where the ostinato semiquaver figure in octaves for the left hand begins, do we not hear the trampling of horses, the clatter of arms and spurs, and the sound of trumpets?
- In It's Gonna Rain, the voice of a Pentecostal preacher is looped at gradually different speeds, creating a sumptuous sonic texture, and in Piano Phase the pianists have to move in and out of phase with one another, subtly shifting from one semiquaver of a melodic pattern to the next.
- Here it is the clatter and bustle of coming into port that is represented; people hurrying about the deck, the young sailors 'motive joyously ringing from the violins and wood, sailors hauling, and the colours fluttering in the breeze (semiquaver motives in clarinets and bassoons), all are preparing for the shore.
- The opening bars are, of course, ultramodern: they would never have been written had not Wagner written something like them first; but the combination of poignancy and lightness and poise with which the same phrase is delivered and expanded as the theme for the allegro is quite Mozartean, and the same may be said of the semiquaver passage following it.
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