quarter note
1
3.9
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtər noʊt/
- Specialized
:
nota de negra
- Keeping everything together is a stiff and rigid drum beat in straight quarter notes.
- quarter note beat
- rhythm of quarter notes
- two quarter notes
Now big band music is all rhythm guitar, Freddie Green, just all down stroke quarter notes.
- Now big band music is all rhythm guitar, Freddie Green, just all down stroke quarter notes.
- So it's it's quarter note, eighth note, triplet.........
Examples
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The director asked the students to play repeated quarter notes on a separate selection.
Academic text (2006) -
The student will read and clap a four-beat rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes accurately and at the tempo provided.
Academic text (2015) -
Write the quarter notes on the board. Perform and track again.
Academic text (2015) -
Tell students to sing or play four quarter notes on each pitch of a scale.
Academic text (1994) -
The students were given the lyrics, "Little Star," and two quarter notes under "Little."
Academic text (2013) -
Students learn that in 2/4, for example, the quarter note gets the beat and there are two beats in each measure.
Academic text (2005) -
In Western terms, the student begins by vocalizing quarter notes.
Academic text (2013) -
The student should keep a quarter-note pulse through hand gestures, tapping the beat, clapping, or conducting.
Academic text (2013) -
Have half of the students clap a quarter-note macrobeat while the other half claps the off-beats.
Academic text (2001) -
The students learned to play four quarter notes in a row to keep the rhythm steady.
Synonyms
A musical note that lasts for one beat in most music
How Long
- Specialized
1
4.2
- Specialized
1
3.6
- Specialized
1
3.9
- Specialized
1
4.8
- Specialized
1
5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'quarter' denotes one fourth and 'note' is a musical sound/notation, so together they indicate a note lasting one fourth of a whole. This fraction+musical-term construction is transparent and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Quarter note comes from the idea of cutting a whole musical sound into four equal pieces, like slicing a cake into four. A quarter is one fourth and a note is a musical sound, so a quarter note means 'one fourth of a whole note'.