Similar words: quaver, quavering, semiliquid, semiaquatic, suave, aquavit, suavely, piquant. Meaning: n. a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note.
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1 The dot indicators on each line of the staves give the position of each semi-quaver in a time signature of 4/4.
2 Similarly, at bar 74 the semiquaver upbeat to the third beat should probably be executed as a triplet upbeat to those that follow in the right hand.
3 A barely audible ff septuplet of semiquaver chords and two rabid glissandi are thrown in by the soloist, before piano and bass section end the movement in five different Gs.
4 The rapid bowed quavers of the former become the rapid staccato semiquavers of the latter.
5 The piano puts a momentary end to its own fury with a barely feasible manoeuvre, both hands jumping up three or four octaves simultaneously and fortissimo in the time of a semiquaver.
6 Quiet redirection subsequently issues from the bassoons, which take up the wandering piano-theme, while the piano itself goes over into a pp semiquaver accompaniment.
More similar words: quaver, quavering, semiliquid, semiaquatic, suave, aquavit, suavely, piquant, piquancy, antiquark, antiquary, reliquary, antiquate, antiquated, semi-, semi, antiquarian, semis, semite, seminal, semi-dry, semitic, seminar, semitone, seminole, semiotic, semi-wild, seminary, semiarid, semicolon.