crotchets
Notes worth one beat
Crotchets are quirky, stubborn opinions or peculiar notions—the odd fixations someone clings to despite their eccentricity: He had his crotchets about proper grammar.
The word suggests harmless but persistent idiosyncrasies.
In British musical notation, a crotchet is a quarter note.
The two meanings share a sense of something small and hooked.
Ceases work temporarily
- minimSmallest apothecary volume
- semibreveNote lasting four beats
- quaverUnsteady vocal sound
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
clef · score · measure · bar · notation · time-signature · duration · stem
Spontaneous, capricious notions
- capricesSudden impulsive urges
- eccentricitiesUnusual personal behaviors
- peculiaritiesDistinctive odd characteristics
- idiosyncrasiesIndividual behavioral peculiarities
fancies · oddities · notions · vagaries · foibles · kinks · perversities · stubbornness
rests
Ceases work temporarily
staff · clef · score · measure · bar · notation · time-signature · duration · stem · flag
whims
Spontaneous, capricious notions
- capricesSudden impulsive urges
- eccentricitiesUnusual personal behaviors
- peculiaritiesDistinctive odd characteristics
idiosyncrasies · fancies · oddities · notions · vagaries · foibles · kinks · perversities · stubbornness · cantankerousness
- quirkseccentricities, idiosyncrasies, peculiarities, oddities, foibles
crotchetswhole notes
Four-beat musical symbols
breves · minims · half notes · semiquavers · sixteenth notes
crotchetscommonalities
Shared features or traits
conformities · conventions · orthodoxies · normalities · received wisdom