| 单词 | quarter-note |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-note quarter-note n. Music (a) = quarter-tone n.; (b) North American a crotchet; also attributive as quarter-note rest. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > crotchet crotchetc1440 quarter-note1627 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > quarter-tone quarter-note1627 quarter-tone1673 demi-semitone1866 quarter1902 1627 F. Bacon Sylva sylvarum §110 We haue no Musicke of Quarter-Notes; And it may be, they are not capable of Harmony; For we see the Halfe-Notes themselues doe but interpose sometimes. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 100 I am slow to believe that any good Musick (especially of many Parts) can be composed by Quarter-Notes, although I hear some talk much of it. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music v. 63 Quarter-Notes;..an Interval which no human Ear can precisely distinguish. 1774 Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 264 Such a minute interval..when a quarter-note for example might be required. 1869 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 Mar. Giving to this note but half its value and..retarding the time because the sixteenth-notes seem more difficult to execute than the eighth-notes or quarter-notes. 1958 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime iv. 77 Unaccented eighth notes alternating with accented quarter notes. 1989 Guitar Player Mar. 42/2 Mwenda used his thumb to play..the usual steady flow of quarter-notes. < as lemmas |
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