quarter note
noun Music.
a note equivalent to one fourth of a whole note; a crotchet.
Origin of quarter note
First recorded in 1755–65
Words nearby quarter note
Example sentences from the Web for quarter note
It is danced in either 2/4 or 6/8 time, and the first movement (in 2/4 time) occupies the duration of a quarter-note.
The Fascinating Boston |Alfonso Josephs SheafeThe suspension may now be a quarter-note, or its rhythmic equivalent.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons |Friedrich J. Lehmann
British Dictionary definitions for quarter note
quarter note
noun
US and Canadian music
a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve
Also called: crotchet