demisemiquaver

(ˈdemiˌkweivər) noun. Music. a sixteenth note; semiquaver.

In music, a thirty-second note (American) or demisemiquaver (British) is a note played for 1⁄32 of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or semiquaver) and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or hemidemisemiquaver). , etc.)

: a musical note with the time value of 1/64 of a whole note : sixty-fourth note.

A minim lasts for two crotchet beats. A quaver lasts for half a crotchet beat - so there are two to the time of a crotchet. A semiquaver lasts for a quarter of a crotchet beat - so there are four to the time of a crotchet.

semidemisemiquaver In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (North American), or hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver (British), sometimes called a half-thirty-second note, is a note played for half the duration of a thirty-second note (or demisemiquaver), hence the name.

These 2-notes-in-one are called enharmonic equivalents because they sound the same - indeed, they are the same note - they just go by different names depending on the situation. G# is the same as Ab, C# is the same as Db, F# is the same as Gb, and so on.

Semiquavers are known as sixteenth notes. There are also other less frequently used, longer and shorter note values: Breves or double whole-notes - each breve is twice the length of a semibreve. Demisemiquavers or thirty-second notes - Each demisemiquaver is half the length of a semiquaver.

A four-note chord is based on a three-note chord to which is added an additional note located at an interval of seventh of the root note.

What does a semiquaver look like? A semiquaver is represented by a filled notehead, or dot, and a stem with 2 tails.

quaver An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve).

An eighth note (quaver) is 1/2 of a beat. It takes eight of them to complete a measure.

Dissonance in music is often, but not always, followed by harmonic resolution in musical pieces. This result of playing notes together and whether the sounds are consonant or dissonant, has to do with whether or not the tones produced are at regular or irregular intervals.