Quasihemidemisemiquaver

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A note having a time value half as long as a hemidemisemiquaver or 64th note; a 128th note.

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

Synonyms

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128th note128th notehundred twenty-eighth notesemihemidemisemiquaversemihemidemisemiquaver

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

Etymology

From quasi- + hemidemisemiquaver.

Related phrases

128th note64th note

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