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English terminology
If you want know more about English terminology
look at :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_terminology
look at :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_terminology
English curiosities about music
American note values
Whole note
Semi-breve
Half note
Minim
Quarter note
Crotchet
Eighth note
Quaver
Sixteenth note
Semiquaver
Thirty-second note
Demisemiquaver
Sixty-fourth note
Hemidemisemiquaver (NOTE: Instead of actually pronouncing such a long name for such a
short note, people sometimes just say "quick note")
Hundred twenty-eighth note
Quasihemidemisemiquaver (I'm not making this up: it's in Scholes' Oxford Companion to Music and elsewhere), or Semihemidemisemiquaver
Rests
Where, for example, British say crotchet rest, Americans say quarter rest (not quarter-note rest)
Dots
Dots are dots: a dotted half note, for example, is a dotted minim
For further information check at: http://ninagilbert.googlepages.com/British.html#ANOTE
Whole note
Semi-breve
Half note
Minim
Quarter note
Crotchet
Eighth note
Quaver
Sixteenth note
Semiquaver
Thirty-second note
Demisemiquaver
Sixty-fourth note
Hemidemisemiquaver (NOTE: Instead of actually pronouncing such a long name for such a
short note, people sometimes just say "quick note")
Hundred twenty-eighth note
Quasihemidemisemiquaver (I'm not making this up: it's in Scholes' Oxford Companion to Music and elsewhere), or Semihemidemisemiquaver
Rests
Where, for example, British say crotchet rest, Americans say quarter rest (not quarter-note rest)
Dots
Dots are dots: a dotted half note, for example, is a dotted minim
For further information check at: http://ninagilbert.googlepages.com/British.html#ANOTE
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