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semi-quaver

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semi-quaver [ˈsemɪˌkweɪvəʳ] N (Brit) → semicorchea f

semi-quaver
n semi-quaver [ˈsemikweivə]
in music, a note equal in length to half a quaver. sestiende نَغَمَةٌ موسيقيَّةٌ ثُنائِيَّة الأسْنان шестнадесетина нота šestnáctinka sekstendedelsnode die Sechzehntelnot ένα δέκατο έκτο (μουσ.) semicorchea kuueteistkümnendiknoot نت چنگ در موسيقي kuudestoistaosanuotti double croche הַחֵלֶק ה-16 שֶׁל תָו एक मात्रिक का षोडपांश šesnaestinka (nota) tizenhatod (hangjegy) nada setengah sextándapartsnóta semicroma 十六音符 16분 음표 šešioliktinė sešpadsmitdaļnots semi kuaver zestiende noot sekstendelsnote szesnastka semicolcheia шестнадцатая нота šestnástinová nota šestnajstinka šesnaestina sextondelsnot ตัวโน้ตตัวที่สิบหก onaltılık nota 十六分音符 шістнадцята нота نصف لرزش کے برابر طول کی ماترا nốt móc đôi


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The programme opened with Elgar's Welsh choir-inspired Introduction and Allegro which features the composer's trademark broad swell of strings but also passages of pizzicati from a string quartet and a mad dash through rippling semi-quavers to a satisfying final flourish.
The development of the basic theme and the secondary lyrical idea has the necessarily emotional pull and very clearly articulated urgency, and it is very rare for Kahanek to allow the otherwise marvellous performance effects (from the brilliant sequence of pianissimo to the demonically fast semi-quaver figures in the transition into the second theme) to "drown" the melodic line.
Bach's Third Partita for unaccompanied violin was exciting yet refined, the Preludio brilliant and driven, with bold contrasts and endless variety in the grouping of its uniform semi-quavers.
 
 
 
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