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half note
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half note
n. Music
A note having one half the value of a whole note.
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half note
from Fra Jacopino (1614) by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
A. half note B. quarter note
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Noun1.half notehalf note - a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
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musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"


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Howat states that the autograph manuscript contains one piece of circumstantial evidence: in bars 70-73 the eighths are notated as sixteenths, with the bar-line between bars 70 and 71 omitted; and the half notes in bars 72-73 are obviously changed from what were initially quarter notes (Example 5).
Solving performance problems in Debussy's: La Cathedrale Engloutie by Smith, Janet Bass / American Music Teacher
Half notes eventually became quarter notes, and eighth notes became sixteenths.
Essays in honor of Eugene L. Brand and the twenty-fifth anniversary ... by Klein, Ralph W. / Currents in Theology and Mission
Rhythmic values are quarter, eighth and half notes, and only the major finger pattern is used in the first chorale.
Strings Alive by Tarr, Carol / American Music Teacher
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