Figure 1. A sixteenth note with stem facing up, a sixteenth note with stem facing down, and a sixteenth rest.
Figure 2. Four Sixteenth notes beamed together.
In music, a sixteenth note (American or "German" terminology) or semiquaver (also occasionally demiquaver, British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for one sixteenth the duration of a whole note, hence the name. The semiquaver is half of a quaver which is an eighth note. Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... Figure 1. ... Figure 1. ...
Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with two flags. (see Figure 1). A similar symbol is the sixteenth rest (or semiquaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, sixteenth notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of the musical staff. When they are on or above the middle line, they are drawn with stems on the left of the note head, facing down. Flags are always on the right side of the stem, and curve to the right. On stems facing up, the flags start at the top and curve down; for downward facing stems, the flags start at the bottom of the stem and curve up. When multiple sixteenth notes or eighth notes (or thirty-second notes, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected with a beam, like the notes in Figure 2. Note the similarities in notating sixteenth notes and eighth notes. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such as thirty-second notes and sixty-fourth notes. The oval that is seen at the top or bottom of a note. ... Stems can refer to two things in music, relating to music notation and production. ... Categories: Music stubs ... In musical notation, the staff or stave is a set of five horizontal lines on which note symbols are placed to indicate pitch and time. ... Figure 1. ... A beam in musical notation is constructed as one or more lines used to connect multiple consecutive eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc. ... Figure 1. ... In music, a thirty-second note (American or German terminology) or demisemiquaver (British or classical terminology) is a note played for 1/32 of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). ... In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (American) or a hemidemisemiquaver (British/Canadian) is a note played for 1/64 of the duration of a whole note. ...
The note derives from the semifusa in mensural notation. However, semifusa also designates the modern sixty-fourth note in Spanish. Menstrual notation is the musical notation system which was used from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600. ...
The names of this note (and rest) in European languages vary greatly:
Four of the five trills (bars 1, 10, 12 and 20) are approached in note repetition and thus commence on the upper neighbor note.
The reason why the second eighth-note in bar 3 must be regarded as the final note, thus creating an unusual overlapping of the end of the first subject statement with the beginning of the next one, lies in the particular melodic structure of the subject.
Observing the variety of note values throughout the composition one finds that these two basic values are doubtlessly predominant, and the third rhythmic unit, the tied-over quarter-note in the counter-subject, does not change the fundamentally simple rhythmic pattern.
In music, a sixteenthnote (American) or semiquaver (also occasionally known as a demiquaver) is a note played for one sixteenth the duration of a whole note, hence the name.
Sixteenthnotes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with two flags.
When multiple sixteenthnotes or eighth notes (or thirty-second notes, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected with a beam, like the notes in Figure 2.
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