Meaning of One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Note in Music
In music, a **one hundred twenty-eighth note** (also known as a semihemidemisemiquaver in British English) is a note played for 1/128 of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a sixty-fourth note and has a total of five flags or beams. This note is very short and is rarely used in musical compositions. It is typically used in passages that are meant to be performed rapidly, where the actual tempo is at the discretion of the performer rather than being a strict division of the beat.
References:
A note having the time duration of one hundred twenty-eighth of the time duration of a whole note.
In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the terms:
- [British] semihemidemisemiquaver
- [French] cent-vingt-huitième
- [German] Hundert und achtundzwanzigstelnote (f)
- [Italian] centoventottavo
- [Spanish] garrapatea
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