Word of the day

From Miram Webster, today's word is hemidemisemiquaver:

hemidemisemiquaver   \hem-ih-dem-ih-SEM-ih-kway-ver\   noun

     : a musical note with the time value of 1/64 of a whole note : sixty-fourth note

Example sentence:
    The pianist's fingers became a blur flying over the keys as she played the difficult hemidemisemiquavers of the allegro movement.

Stumbles right off the tongue.

Comments

This is just the british terminology - instead of whole note, half note, they use quaver, semiquaver, etc.

Posted by: JMC on May 29, 2007 03:04 PM

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