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==History== The quarter note equates to the {{lang|la|semiminima}} ('half minim') of [[mensural notation]]. The word "crotchet" comes from [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|crochet}}, meaning 'little hook', diminutive of {{wikt-lang|fro|croc}}, 'hook', because of the hook used on the note in [[mensural notation|black notation]] of the medieval period. As the name implies, a quarter note's duration is one quarter that of a whole note, half the length of a half note, and twice that of an eighth note. It represents one beat in a bar of {{music|time|4|4}} time. The term "quarter note" is a [[calque]] (loan-translation) of the German term {{lang|de|Viertelnote}}. In the [[Romance languages]] of Catalan, French, Galician, and Spanish, the name of this note and its equivalent rest is derived from the [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|negra}} meaning 'black'βas the {{lang|la|semiminima}} was the longest note to be colored in [[mensural notation|mensural white notation]]. This is still true of the note's modern form. The Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Slovak names mean "quarter" (for the note) and "quarter's pause" (for the rest).
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