Double eighth note

In the Musical theory, the double eighth note is a figure of note represented by an oval of black color, attached to a pole provided with two hooks. The position of this oval on the carried - line or line space - indicates the height Note of music.

  • the silence of the double eighth note is the sixteenth rest , figure of duration identical.

Two double eighth notes and a sixteenth rest:

  • As for all the other figures of note to hooks - eighth notes, thirty-second notes, etc -, it is possible to replace the hooks by bonds, which facilitates the notation and the reading.

  • the double eighth note is equivalent to half of a eighth note, to the quarter of a black , to the eighth of a white , to sixteenth of a round , to the double of a thirty-second note, etc

For example, in a measurement quantified 4/4, the double eighth note is worth a quarter of time, that is to say sixteenth totality of measurement.

See too

  • Provision of the notes on range

  • the theoretical and technical Glossary of the Western music
  • Representation of the durations (musical theory)
  • Rate/rhythm (musical theory)

Zh-yue: 十六分音符

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