A quarter note (AmE) or crotchet (BrE) (/ˈkrɒtʃɪt/) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes...

the last part of a note should be silenced to create separation between it and the following note. For example, a written quarter note should be played...

Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note "Quarters" (Wilco song) "Quarter" (song) Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at...

note (American) or semibreve (British) in musical notation is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half notes or four quarter notes....

of half the value – for instance, a dotted half note is equivalent to a half note tied to a quarter note. Subsequent dots add progressively halved value...

the duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note. It is the equivalent...

in synchronization. Clock events are sent at a rate of 24 pulses per quarter note. Those pulses are used to maintain a synchronized tempo for synthesizers...

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...

note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note. A half note is half the length of a whole note, a quarter note is...

corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth note (quaver), 16 to the sixteenth note (semiquaver). The upper...

quarter note pulse in (quad)duple time: each measure is formed from (two groups of) two quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into two eighth notes...

note is a quarter-note the grace note must be notated as an eighth- note, two sixteenth notes, four thirty-second notes, or eight sixty-fourth notes,...

tie two notes that could be written with a single note value, such as a quarter note tied to an eighth note (the same length as a dotted quarter). This...

more advanced accidental symbols (e.g. for quarter tones). Accidental symbols are placed to the right of a note's letter when written in text (e.g. F♯ is...

In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the texture or shape of the notehead, the presence or absence of a stem...

lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of six...

note by approximately a quarter tone. A sharp-and-a-half, three-quarter-tone sharp, or sesquisharp () raises a note by three quarter tones. Although very...

particular note value, thus indicating how long the silence should last. Each type of rest is named for the note value it corresponds with (e.g. quarter note and...

may also apply to notes of different values, for example a quarter note followed by one eighth note, in which case the quarter note may be regarded as...

measure, where the half note gets the beat. The name "common time" refers to 4 4, which has four beats to the bar, each of a quarter note (or crotchet). In...

perceived as basic. This is currently most often designated as a crotchet (quarter note) when written (see time signature). Pulse is related to and distinguished...

of eight equal parts of a whole Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) Octave, an interval between...

4, each bar contains two (2) quarter-note (4) beats. In the time signature 6 8, each bar contains two dotted-quarter-note beats. Corresponding quadruple...

double flat () lowers a note by two semitones, or a whole step. A quarter-tone flat, half flat, or demiflat indicates the use of quarter tones; it may be marked...

are divided is altered. While much music typically has a backbeat on quarter note (crotchet) beats two and four, half time would increase the interval...

the last two quarter notes of the second measure, D and E, "walk" up from the first quarter note in that measure, C, to the first note of the third measure...

genre since the Alban Berg Concerto". The work is in three movements: Quarter note = 78 Chaconne: Body through which the dream flows Toccare It is dedicated...

No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it...

notation would be 3 quarter notes over 2 dotted quarter notes within one bar of 6 8 time, quarter note triplets over 2 quarter notes within one bar of 2...

of a note by a semitone. Also an adjective to describe a singer or musician performing a note in which the intonation is an eighth or a quarter of a semitone...