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n. - A musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note.

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  • Remember, you've got to begin on the demisemiquaver at the end of the bar -- only not too staccato, remember -- and allow for the pause.
  • But you must not vigorously move immediately from semiquavers to demisemiquavers, as in this example, or from these to the next in degree -- that would be doubling the velocity...
  • 6f.; a crotchet, 3f.; a quaver, 1f. 50c.; a semiquaver, 15 sous; a demisemiquaver, 7-1/2 sous.
  • Not lose a demisemiquaver.
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