Two crotchets

  • 1two-four — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun or two four time : the time of a musical composition having two quarter notes or tones or their equivalent to a measure and indicated by the time signature 2/4 a quick dance in two four * * * twoˈ four adjective and adverb (music) …

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  • 2two-four — /tu ˈfɔ/ (say tooh faw) adjective (of a musical tempo) characterised by two crotchets to the bar …

  • 3Clavier-Übung III — Johann Sebastian Bach, 1746 The Clavier Übung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–6 and published in 1739. It is considered to be Bach s most… …

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  • 4Eye movement in music reading — skills. A central aspect of music reading is the sequence of alternating saccades and fixations, as it is for most oculomotor tasks. Saccades are the rapid ‘flicks’ that move the eyes from location to location over a music score. Saccades are… …

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  • 5Anglican chant — is a way to sing un metrical texts, such as prose translations of the psalms, canticles, and other, similar biblical texts by matching the natural speech rhythm of the words in each verse to a short piece of metrical music.Anglican Chant was… …

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  • 6Enigma Variations — Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36 ( Enigma ), commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1898 ndash;99. It is Elgar s best known… …

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  • 7minim — [[t]mɪ̱nɪm[/t]] minims N COUNT A minim is a musical note that has a time value equal to two crotchets or two quarter notes. [BRIT] Syn: half note (in AM, use half note) …

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  • 8half note — noun A musical note length also called a minim, half the length of a semibreve, equal in length to two crotchets. It is drawn on staves as an unfilled loop with a stem …

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  • 9minim — min|im [ˈmınım] n BrE [Date: 1400 1500; : Medieval Latin; Origin: minimus, from Latin; MINIMUM2] a musical note that continues for the length of two ↑crotchets American Equivalent: half note …

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  • 10minim — noun 1》 Music, Brit. a note having the time value of two crotchets or half a semibreve, represented by a ring with a stem. 2》 a small bronze or silver ancient Roman coin. 3》 one sixtieth of a fluid drachm, about one drop of liquid. 4》 (in… …

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