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, etc.Drum pattern, s on bass and snare,accompanied byride patterns of various duple lengths from to 128th (all at=60) | |||
 1ⓘ | 2ⓘ | 4ⓘ | 8ⓘ |
| 16ⓘ | 32ⓘ | 64ⓘ | 128ⓘ |
Inmusic, a1/16, sixteenth note (American) orsemiquaver (British) is anote played for half the duration of aneighth note (quaver), hence the names. It is the equivalent of the semifusa inmensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation.[1]
Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-innote head and a straightnote stem with twoflags (see Figure 1). A single sixteenth note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups.[2] A corresponding symbol is thesixteenth rest (orsemiquaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, sixteenth notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of themusical staff (or on the middle line, in vocal music). When they are on the middle line (in instrumental music) or above it, they are drawn with stems on the left of the note head, facing down. Flags are always on the right side of the stem, and curve to the right. On stems facing up, the flags start at the top and curve down; for downward facing stems, the flags start at the bottom of the stem and curve up. When multiple sixteenth notes or eighth notes (or thirty-second notes, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected with abeam, like the notes in Figure 2. Note the similarities in notating sixteenth notes andeighth notes. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such asthirty-second notes (demisemiquavers) andsixty-fourth notes (hemidemisemiquavers).
InUnicode, U+266C (♬) is a pair of beamed semiquavers.
The note derives from thesemifusa inmensural notation. However,semifusa also designates the modern sixty-fourth note in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese.
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