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

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