Definition of hemidemisemiquaver in English:
hemidemisemiquaver
nounˌhɛmɪdɛmɪˈsɛmɪkweɪvəˌhɛmiˌdɛmiˈsɛmiˌkweɪvər
British Music A note with the time value of half a demisemiquaver, represented by a large dot with a four-hooked stem.
Also called sixty-fourth note
Example sentencesExamples
- We hear his dizzy, endless melodic chain of hemidemisemiquavers pouring from the chromatic button keyboard of three accordions.
- There was this very specific attention to every hemidemisemiquaver and how quintuplets were going to inter-relate with this and how the texture of the cymbalom would work with the mandolin versus the harps and so on.
- Jackson is a noted perfectionist who wants to get every hemidemisemiquaver right, and if the material is strong enough that true emotion gets through the handiwork, all the better.
- It's pretty unusual to find hemidemisemiquavers in pieces of music, because most of the time they're too short to be significant - just 1/64th of a semibreve.
- Endless varieties of notational patterns (up to hemidemisemiquavers) and ornaments can be created by combing the characters in the font
Definition of hemidemisemiquaver in US English:
hemidemisemiquaver
nounˌhɛmiˌdɛmiˈsɛmiˌkweɪvərˌhemēˌdemēˈsemēˌkwāvər
British Music A note with the time value of half a demisemiquaver; a sixty-fourth note.
Example sentencesExamples
- We hear his dizzy, endless melodic chain of hemidemisemiquavers pouring from the chromatic button keyboard of three accordions.
- Jackson is a noted perfectionist who wants to get every hemidemisemiquaver right, and if the material is strong enough that true emotion gets through the handiwork, all the better.
- It's pretty unusual to find hemidemisemiquavers in pieces of music, because most of the time they're too short to be significant - just 1/64th of a semibreve.
- There was this very specific attention to every hemidemisemiquaver and how quintuplets were going to inter-relate with this and how the texture of the cymbalom would work with the mandolin versus the harps and so on.
- Endless varieties of notational patterns (up to hemidemisemiquavers) and ornaments can be created by combing the characters in the font