She knew it off by heart - every bar, every semiquaver, every harmony. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
He was the only one who could not sing a note, and his rank was dotted demi-semiquaver rest. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
'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. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The second violins' semiquaver figure is analysed. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
This thread is making me quaver, but only a little - more of a semiquaver, then. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Constantly varying both her tone and expression, she and Bennett threw off the semiquaver runs and top Cs with dazzling aplomb. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
One is a rapid, sinuous, twisting, shifty semiquaver figure suggested by the unsubstantial, elusive logic-spinning of the clever one's braincraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
Exquisite softness and tenderness distinguish the melodious parts, and Chopin's peculiar coaxing tone is heard in the semiquaver passage marked tranquillo of the first subject. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Sylvain Pons was of no more value than an antediluvian semiquaver; dealers in music had never heard of his name, though he was still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
Some of those semiquaver runs in the second movement are absolute bastards. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
• whole note (semibreve) • half note (minim) • quarter note (crotchet) • sixteenth note (semiquaver). From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
A precipitous allegro a capella, driven headlong to its end by the impetuous semiquaver triplets of the famous finales to the first act of. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
"" Sometimes I tried to steal a couple of notes -- you know, "I've got this great line that would fit if you'd just give me another semiquaver! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Couple] Reference
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 of the shake all at once, which would be a skip, not a graduation; but you can imagine between a semiquaver and a demisemiquaver intermediate degrees of rapidity, quicker than the one, and slower than the other of these characters; you are therefore to increase in velocity by the same degrees in practising the shake, as in loudness when you make a swell. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
It was just a cornet semiquaver but unavoidable. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
6f.; a crotchet, 3f.; a quaver, 1f. 50c.; a semiquaver, 15 sous; a demisemiquaver, 7-1/2 sous. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference
A “semiquaver” is a sixteenth noet. From Wordnik.com. [peeing in shooz iz ammacher stuff - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Or a small semiquaver. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of All Flesh] Reference
Dat’s a semiquaver aifink. From Wordnik.com. [peeing in shooz iz ammacher stuff - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Till then, earth's semiquaver, mirth, farewell. From Wordnik.com. [Emblems, divine and moral] Reference
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