quaver

From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave + -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.

The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.

1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 140–141:

(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

โน้ตตัวเขบ็ดหนึ่งชั้น (nóot-dtuua-kà-bèt-nʉ̀ng-chán, literally “one layer quaver body note”)


minim

(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

โน้ตตัวขาว (not-tua-khao, literally “white body note”)


crotchet

/ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt/

From Middle English crochet, from Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note). Doublet of crochet, crocket, and croquet.

doublet

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

โน้ตตัวดำ (not-tua-dam, literally “black body note”)


semibreve

From Italian semibreve, ultimately from Latin semi- (“half”) and Latin brevis (“short”).

(music, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A musical note four beats long in 4/4 time; a whole note (US)

โน้ตตัวกลม (not-tua-klom, literally “round body note”)


semiquaver

(music) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.


demisemiquaver

(music) A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails.


hemidemisemiquaver

But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.


breve

From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).

(music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.


ر

(music) D, Re (the second note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Re (the second note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the supertonic)


64th note

(music) A note whose duration is one sixty-fourth that of a whole note.


quasihemidemisemiquaver

Telemann's ‘Gulliver’ suite for two violins includes a Lilliputian chaconne in quasihemidemisemiquavers and a Brobdignanian^([sic]) gigue in semibreves.

2004, Paul Griffins, The Penguin Companion to Classical Music, →ISBN:

(music, principally UK) A note having a time value half as long as a hemidemisemiquaver or 64th note; a 128th note.


quarter note

(Canada, US, music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.


لا

(music) A, La (the sixth note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) La (the sixth note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the submediant)


eighth note

(Canada, US, music) A note having one-eighth the duration of a whole note; a quaver.


دو

(music) C, Do (the first note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)


سی

(music) B, Si (the seventh note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Ti (the seventh note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the leading note)


می

Ultimately Borrowed from Latin mīra, either via French mi or English mi.

(music) E, Mi (the third note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Mi (the third note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the mediant)


whole note

(Canada, US, music) A semibreve, a musical note four beats long in 4/4 time.


سل

(music) G, Sol (the fifth note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Sol (the fifth note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the dominant)


half note

(Canada, US, music) A musical note that is two beats long, which is half the length of a semibreve and equal in length to two crotchets; a minim.


semidemisemiquaver

(music) hemidemisemiquaver (a 64th note)


semihemidemisemiquaver

(music, principally UK) quasihemidemisemiquaver.


sixteenth note

(music) A note that has 1/16 the value of a whole note.


thirty-second note

en-noun

thirty-second note (plural thirty-second notes)

(music) A note that has 1/32 the length of a whole note.


32nd note

(music, US) a note with 1/32 the length of a whole note


double whole note

double whole note (plural double whole notes)

(US, music) A note with twice the value of a whole note; a breve.

倍全音符

music: a note with twice the value of a whole note


sixty-fourth note

sixty-fourth note (plural sixty-fourth notes)

sixty-fourth notes (plural)
64th note (alternative)

(music) a note with 1/64 the value of a whole note


فا

(music) F, Fa (the fourth note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Fa (the fourth note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the subdominant)


dotted note

A notation used in music that increases the duration of the basic note by half of its original value.


hundred twenty-eighth note

hundred twenty-eighth note (plural hundred twenty-eighth notes)

(music) A note played for ¹⁄₁₂₈ of the duration of a whole note.

quintuple croche

a note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note


two hundred fifty-sixth note

two hundred fifty-sixth note (plural two hundred fifty-sixth notes)

When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.

2009, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz, Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:

(music, very rare) A note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note.


128th note

hundred twenty-eighth note
hundred twenty-eighth note#English

(music, US) Abbreviation of hundred twenty-eighth note.


256th note

two hundred fifty-sixth note
two hundred fifty-sixth note#English

(music, US) Alternative form of two hundred fifty-sixth note.


512th note

(music, US, rare) A note played for 1/512 of the duration of a whole note.


1024th note

[…] handles precise time distinctions (to a 1024th note). Many error correction and detection features are included in the program.

1970, Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings of the National Conference (volume 25, page 330)

[…] 1024th notes in the first line of the "Thoreau" movement, an indication to the performer to play as fast as he can. (1024th notes are exceptionally rare in the musical literature.)

1979, Kenneth Ralph Gartner, The Expansion of Pianism Since 1945, page 42:

[…] 1024th notes, atonality, and unbarred sections.

1979, Harry Raphael Garvin, James M. Heath, The Arts and Their Interrelations, page 125:

(music, US, rare) A note played for 1/1024 of the duration of a whole note.


16th note

(music, US) Abbreviation of sixteenth note.


8th note

(music, US) Abbreviation of eighth note.