The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
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Crotchet
/ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt/
Synonyms for "crotchet" (124 found)
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Noun(2 words)
quarter notecaprice
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crookdeflectiondemisemiquaverdeviationdivergencedoglegdominantdominant notedouble whole noteeccentricityeighth noteelbowellenharmonicenharmonic notefadfancyfantastic notionfantasyflat
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flimflamfoiblefool notionforkfreakfreakish inspirationfurcationhalf noteharebrained ideahemidemisemiquaverhookhumoridiosyncrasyinflectionirregularity
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12 entriesconceptcurvecurved shapehookideamusical notationmusical notemusical symbolnotestrangenesstoneunfamiliarity
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5 entrieschildish whimdotted crotchetflighty fancypet fantasysyncopated crotchet
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6 entriescrotchet durationcrotchet restcrotchet symbolcrotchet valuedotted crotchetquarter note
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6 total sentences available.
Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.
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Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms; [...] dost thou call that "liberty!"
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He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
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