semiquaver
Brief musical duration
A semiquaver is a sixteenth note in music—a note lasting half the duration of a quaver (eighth note).
The term is standard in British musical notation: The passage requires rapid semiquaver runs.
American musicians typically say "sixteenth note" instead.
Ordinal for 16
- crotchetOne-beat musical note
- minimSmallest apothecary volume
- dottedMarked with small points
- tiedFastened by knotting
beam · flag · stem · rest · staff · ledger · triplet · duplet
Portion of something larger
- pulseArterial blood throb
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- polyrhythmOverlapping musical beat patterns
grouping · pattern · tempo · allegro · presto · vivace · prestissimo · run
sixteenth
Ordinal for 16
tied · beam · flag · stem · rest · staff · ledger · triplet · duplet · quadruplet
subdivision
Portion of something larger
- pulseArterial blood throb
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
polyrhythm · grouping · pattern · tempo · allegro · presto · vivace · prestissimo · run · passage
staccato
Short, separated note style
- legatoUnbroken musical phrasing
- accentRegional speech pattern
- grace noteDecorative musical tone
ornament · trill · mordent · turn · articulation · phrasing · bowing · fingering · tonguing · attack
rapid
Moving with haste
brisk · nimble · fast · fleeting · brief · short · hurried · dashing · scurrying · flurry
- Semi- wordssemicircle, semifinal, semicolon, semiconductor, semitruck
- rhythm notationwhole note, half note, quarter note, sixteenth note, whole rest
- sixteenthssixteenth note