Which musical note is equal to one-eighth of a semibreve?
"questa mia opera quadruplicata cioè trentadue al valor de una Semibreve"" (""meant [to represent] in this, my work, a ""quadruplicata"", which is to say thirty-two to the value of one whole note""), but most modern interpretations of the piece play the eighth notes faster depending on how many are written into a measure. Usually the more eighth notes in a measure the faster they are played. Each of the eight ""ricercate"" starts in a different mode but follows a structure similar to the others. The ""ricercate"" each start with slow motifs, usually outlining a triad to establish the tonic of"
"Whole note In music, a whole note (American) or semibreve (British) is a note represented by a hollow oval note head and no note stem. Its length is equal to four beats in time, that is the whole measure (or bar). Most other notes are fractions of the whole note (e.g., half notes and quarter notes are played for one half and one quarter the duration of the whole note, respectively). The symbol is first found in music notation from the late thirteenth century, and its British name derives from the ""semibrevis"" of mensural notation. The whole note and whole"
"Half note In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet). It was given its Latin name (""minima"", meaning ""least or smallest"") because it was the shortest of the five note values used in early medieval music notation . In time signatures with 4 as the bottom number, such as or , the half note is two beats long. However, when 2 is the bottom number (including ""alla breve"", ), the half note is one beat"
"rest may also be used in music of free rhythm, such as Anglican chant, to denote a whole measure. A whole note (American) or semibreve (British) is a musical note represented by a hollow oval note head—like a half note (or ""minim"")—and no note stem (see Figure 1). Its length is equal to four beats in time, that is the whole measure (or bar). Most other notes are fractions of the whole note. Half notes last for one half the duration of the whole note, quarter notes (or ""crotchets"") last for one quarter the duration, and a double whole note"
"These include the tenor saxophone, the bass clarinet, the baritone/euphonium when written in treble clef, and the trombone when written in treble clef (British brass band music). When baritone/euphonium or trombone parts are written in bass clef or tenor clef they sound as written. A minor ninth (m9 or -9) is a compound musical interval spanning 13 semitones, or 1 semitone above an octave (thus it is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented octave). If transposed into a single octave, it becomes a minor second or major seventh. The minor ninth is rather dissonant in sound, and in European classical music,"
"notes). In classical music and Western music in general, the most common tuning system since the 18th century has been twelve-tone equal temperament (also known as 12 equal temperament, 12-TET or 12-ET), which divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equal on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 ( ≈ 1.05946). That resulting smallest interval, the width of an octave, is called a semitone or half step. In modern times, 12TET is usually tuned relative to a standard pitch of 440 Hz, called A440, meaning one note, A, is tuned"
"Semitone A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale. For example, C is adjacent to C; the interval between them is a semitone. In a 12-note approximately equally divided scale, any interval can be defined in terms of an appropriate number of semitones (e.g. a whole tone or major second is 2 semitones wide, a major third 4 semitones, and a perfect"
"the ""brevis"" was to be considered the unit of time (""tactus""), instead of the usual ""semibrevis"". The old symbol , used as an alternative to the numerical proportion 2:1 in mensural notation, is carried over into modern notational practice to indicate a smaller relative value per note shape. It is normally used for music in a relatively quick tempo, where it indicates two minim (half note) beats in a bar of four crotchets (quarter notes), while is the equivalent of , with four crotchet beats . Double whole note In music, a double whole note (American), breve (international), or double"
"A♭ (musical note) A (A-flat; also called la bémol) is the ninth semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above G and a chromatic semitone below A, thus being enharmonic to G, although in some musical tunings, A will have a different sounding pitch than G. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the A above middle C (or A) is approximately 415.305 Hz. See pitch (music) for a discussion of historical variations in frequency. A/G is the only note to have only one other enharmonic."
"A♭ (musical note) A (A-flat; also called la bémol) is the ninth semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above G and a chromatic semitone below A, thus being enharmonic to G, although in some musical tunings, A will have a different sounding pitch than G. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the A above middle C (or A) is approximately 415.305 Hz. See pitch (music) for a discussion of historical variations in frequency. A/G is the only note to have only one other enharmonic."
"the earlier black notation resembles the modern quarter note (crotchet). The Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean names mean ""half"", and in Greek, the modern word (""miso"" – μισό) and older (""imisi"" – ήμισι) are used. Half note In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet). It was given its Latin name (""minima"", meaning ""least or smallest"") because it was the shortest of the five note values used in early medieval music notation . In time"
"Savart The savart is a unit of measurement for musical pitch intervals (). One savart is equal to one thousandth of a decade (10/1: 3,986.313714 cents): 3.9863 cents. Musically, in just intonation, the interval of a decade is precisely a just major twenty-fourth, or, in other words, three octaves and a just major third. Today the savart has largely been replaced by the cent and the millioctave. The savart is practically the same as the earlier heptameride (eptameride), one seventh of a meride. One tenth of an heptameride is a decameride and a hundredth of an heptameride (thousandth of a"
"(or ""breve"", hence the British name ""semibreve"") lasts twice as long as a whole note. A related symbol is the whole rest (or semibreve rest). It usually applies for an ""entire measure"", but may occasionally mean a rest for the duration of a whole note, in longer time signatures such as or . (An entire measure rest is drawn centered within the measure, whereas a rest lasting for a whole note is aligned to where the note would be.) Whole rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles generally hanging under the second line from the top of a musical staff, though"
"no longer in regular use today. Despite these nominal equivalences, each note had a much shorter temporal value than its modern counterpart. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, composers repeatedly introduced new note shapes for ever smaller temporal divisions of rhythm, and the older, longer notes were slowed down in proportion. The basic metrical relationship of a long to a short beat shifted from longa–breve in the 13th century, to breve–semibreve in the 14th, to semibreve–minim by the end of the 15th, and finally to minim–semiminim (i.e., half and quarter notes, or minim and crotchet) in modern notation. Thus, what"
"Quarter note A quarter note (American) or crotchet (British) is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Often, musicians will say that a crotchet is one beat, but this is not always correct, as the beat is indicated by the time signature of the music; a quarter note may or may not be the beat. Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem usually points upwards if it is below the middle line of the stave or downwards if it is on or"
"Thirty-second note In music, a demisemiquaver (British) or thirty-second note (American) is a note played for of the duration of a whole note (or ""semibreve""). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or ""semiquaver"") and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or ""hemidemisemiquaver""). Thirty-second notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with three flags or beams. A single thirty-second note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups. As with all notes with stems, thirty-second notes are drawn with stems to the right of the"
"Double whole note In music, a double whole note (American), breve (international), or double note (; ) is a note lasting two times as long as a whole note (or ""semibreve""). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation (; ). In medieval mensural notation, the ""brevis"" was one of the shortest note lengths in use —hence its name, which is the Latin etymon of ""brief"". In ""perfect"" rhythmic mode, the brevis was a third of a ""longa"", or in ""imperfect"" mode, half a ""longa"" . In modern notation, a breve is commonly represented in"
"G♭ (musical note) G (G-flat) or sol bémol is the seventh semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above F and a chromatic semitone below G, thus being enharmonic to F (F-sharp) or ""fa dièse"". However, in some temperaments, it is not the same as F. G is a major third below B, whereas F is a major third above D (a minor third below A). When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the G semitone is approximately 369.994 Hz. See pitch (music) for a discussion"
"Octave In music, an octave (: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been referred to as the ""basic miracle of music"", the use of which is ""common in most musical systems"". The interval between the first and second harmonics of the harmonic series is an octave. In music notation, notes separated by an octave (or multiple octaves) have the same letter name and are of the same pitch class. To emphasize that it is one of"
"Nova (see Medieval music), there could be either two or three of these for each breve (a double-whole note), which may be looked on as equivalent to the modern ""measure,"" though it was itself a note value and a measure is not. The situation can be considered this way: it is the same as the rule by which in modern music a quarter-note may equal either two eighth-notes or three, which would be written as a ""triplet."" By the same reckoning, there could be two or three of the next smallest note, the ""minim,"" (equivalent to the modern ""half note"")"
"creates a linear pitch space in which an octave spans 12 semitones, where each semitone is the distance between adjacent keys of the piano keyboard. Distance in this space corresponds to musical pitch distance in an equal-tempered scale; 2 semitones being a whole step, 1 semitone being a half step. An equal-tempered semitone can also be subdivided further into 100 cents. Each cent is semitone or octave. This measure of pitch allows the expression of ""microtones"" not found on standard piano keyboards. The notation is sometimes used in the context of meantone temperament, and does not always assume equal temperament"
"duration between different note values. The relation between the ""breve"" and the ""semibreve"" was called tempus, and the relation between the ""semibreve"" and the ""minim"" was called prolatio. The breve and the semibreve use roughly the same symbols as our modern double whole note (breve) and whole note (semibreve), but they were not limited to the same proportional values as are in use today. There are complicated rules concerning how a breve is sometimes three and sometimes two semibreves. Unlike modern notation, the duration ratios between these different values was not always 2:1; it could be either 2:1 or 3:1,"
"the perfect intervals (including unison, perfect fourth, and perfect fifth), the octave is designated P8. Other interval qualities are also possible, though rare. The octave above or below an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated ""8"" or ""8"" (), ""8 bassa"" (, sometimes also ""8""), or simply ""8"" for the octave in the direction indicated by placing this mark above or below the staff. For example, if one note has a frequency of 440 Hz, the note one octave above is at 880 Hz, and the note one octave below is at 220 Hz. The ratio of frequencies of two notes"
"Fractional octave bands such as or of an octave are widely used in engineering acoustics. Octave In music, an octave (: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been referred to as the ""basic miracle of music"", the use of which is ""common in most musical systems"". The interval between the first and second harmonics of the harmonic series is an octave. In music notation, notes separated by an octave (or multiple octaves) have the same letter"
"E♭ (musical note) E (E-flat) or mi bémol is the fourth semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above D and a chromatic semitone below E, thus being enharmonic to D (D-sharp) or ""re dièse"". In equal temperament it is also enharmonic with F. However, in some temperaments, D is not the same as E. E is a perfect fourth above B, whereas D is a major third above B. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the E above middle C (or E) is approximately"
"Up to the end of the 18th century, Latin was used as an official language throughout Europe for scientific and music textbooks. In music, many English terms are derived from Latin. For instance, semitone is from Latin ""semitonus"". The prefix semi- is typically used herein to mean ""shorter"", rather than ""half"". Namely, a semitonus, semiditonus, semidiatessaron, semidiapente, semihexachordum, semiheptachordum, or semidiapason, is shorter by one semitone than the corresponding whole interval. For instance, a semiditonus (3 semitones, or about 300 cents) is not half of a ditonus (4 semitones, or about 400 cents), but a ditonus shortened by one semitone."
"Longa (music) A longa (pl. ""longe"" or ""longae""), long, quadruple note (Am.), or quadruple whole note is a musical note that could be either twice or three times as long as a breve (Am.: double whole note, or double note), four or six times as long as a semibreve (Am.: whole note), that appears in early music. The number of breves in a long was determined by the ""modus"" or ""mode"" of a passage. Sections in perfect mode used three breves to the long while sections in imperfect mode used two breves to the long. Imperfect longs, worth two breves,"
"Ninth In music, a ninth is a compound interval consisting of an octave plus a second. Like the second, the interval of a ninth is classified as a dissonance in common practice tonality. Since a ninth is an octave larger than a second, its sonority level is considered less dense. A major ninth is a compound musical interval spanning 14 semitones, or an octave plus 2 semitones. If transposed into a single octave, it becomes a major second or minor seventh. The major ninth is somewhat dissonant in sound. Some common transposing instruments sound a major ninth lower than written."
"connected with a beam. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such as sixty-fourth notes. A related symbol is the thirty-second rest or demisemiquaver rest (shown to the right), which denotes a silence for the same duration. Thirty-second note In music, a demisemiquaver (British) or thirty-second note (American) is a note played for of the duration of a whole note (or ""semibreve""). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or ""semiquaver"") and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or ""hemidemisemiquaver""). Thirty-second notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with three flags or"
"D♯ (musical note) D (D-sharp) or re dièse is the fourth semitone of the solfège. It lies a chromatic semitone above D and a diatonic semitone below E, thus being enharmonic to ""mi bémol"" or E. However, in some temperaments, it is not the same as E. E is a perfect fourth above B, whereas D is a major third above B. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the D above middle C (or D) is approximately 311.127 Hz. See pitch (music) for a discussion of historical"
"wolf fifth. Septimal major third In music, the septimal major third , also called the supermajor third (by Hermann Helmholtz among others) and sometimes ""Bohlen–Pierce third"" is the musical interval exactly or approximately equal to a just 9:7 ratio of frequencies, or alternately 14:11. It is equal to 435 cents, sharper than a just major third (5:4) by the septimal quarter tone (36:35) (). In 24-TET the septimal major third is approximated by 9 quarter tones, or 450 cents (). Both 24 and 19 equal temperament map the septimal major third and the septimal narrow fourth (21:16) to the same"
"F♯ (musical note) F (F-sharp; also known as fa dièse or fi) is the seventh semitone of the solfège. It lies a chromatic semitone above F and a diatonic semitone below G, thus being enharmonic to ""sol bémol"" or G (G-flat). However, in some temperaments, it is not the same as G. G is a major third below B, whereas F is a major third above D (a minor third below A). When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the F above middle C (or F) is approximately"
"is the smallest step. A semitone is thus made of two steps, and three steps make a three-quarter tone or neutral second, half of a minor third. The 8-TET scale is composed of three-quarter tones (). In just intonation the quarter tone can be represented by the septimal quarter tone, 36:35 (48.77 cents), or by the undecimal quarter tone, 33:32 (53.27 cents), approximately half the semitone of 16:15 or 25:24. The ratio of 36:35 is only 1.23 cents narrower than a 24-TET quarter tone. This just ratio is also the difference between a minor third (6:5) and septimal minor third"