eighth note
noun Music.
a note having one eighth of the time value of a whole note; quaver.
Origin of eighth note
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example sentences from the Web for eighth note
Sixteenth-notes may be used in place of the eighth-note, but should be approached and left step-wise.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons |Friedrich J. LehmannThe second and third movements each occupy the duration of an eighth-note.
The Fascinating Boston |Alfonso Josephs SheafeIn a slow tempo it may serve you to think of the second eighth-note of the triplet as being subdivided into two sixteenths.
Piano Playing |Josef HofmannIn the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.
The Shadow World |Hamlin Garland
British Dictionary definitions for eighth note
eighth note
noun
US and Canadian music
a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreve
Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): quaver