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{{Short description|Musical note duration}} {{Redirect|Quaver|the British snack food|Quavers}} {{redirect2|β«|βͺ|the general description of the symbol|Musical note}} {{refimprove|date=October 2014}} {{Use shortened footnotes|date=April 2021}} [[image:Eighth notes and rest.svg|thumb|180px|right|'''Figure 1.''' An eighth note with stem extending up, an eighth note with stem extending down, and an eighth rest.]] [[image:Eighth note run.svg|thumb|right|180px|'''Figure 2.''' Four eighth notes beamed together.]] {{Duple note values}} {{Duple note values audio}} An '''eighth note''' ([[American English|American]]) or a '''quaver''' ([[British English|British]]) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a [[whole note]] (semibreve). Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expectedβe.g., half the duration of a [[quarter note]] (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a [[half note]] (minim), and twice the value of a [[sixteenth note]]. It is the equivalent of the ''fusa'' in [[mensural notation]].{{r|GroveDict2001_Quaver}} Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight [[note stem]] with one [[Note value|note flag]] (see Figure 1). The stem is on the right of the notehead extending upwards or on the left extending downwards, depending primarily on where the notehead lies relative to the middle line of the staff. A related symbol is the eighth rest (or quaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration.{{r|EighthRest2016_OMD|QuaverDictionaryWeb}} Eighth notes may be beamed together in groups (Figure 2). In {{music|time|3|8}}, {{music|time|6|8}}, {{music|time|9|8}}, and {{music|time|12|8}} they are typically beamed in groups of three. A single eighth note is always stemmed with a flag, while two or more are usually beamed in groups{{r|Gerou1996_211}} in instrumental music. In [[Unicode]], the symbol U+266A (βͺ) is a single eighth note and U+266B (β«) is a beamed pair of eighth notes. These symbols are inherited from the early 1980s [[code page 437]], where they occupied codes 13 and 14 respectively. Additions to the Unicode standard incorporated eighth note depictions from Japanese [[emoji]] sets: ascending eighth notes (U+1F39C, π), descending eighth notes (U+1F39D, π), a graphical generic musical note generally depicted as an eighth note (U+1F3B5, π΅), and three unconnected eighth notes in sequence (U+1F3B6, πΆ). All of these are graphical [[dingbat]]s. In contrast, Unicode's [[Musical Symbols (Unicode block)|Musical Symbols]] block includes eighth note symbols designed to be used in computerized musical notation. == See also == * [[List of musical symbols]] ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=GroveDict2001_Quaver>{{cite book |last1=Morehen |first1=John |last2=Rastall |first2=Richard |date=2001 |chapter=Quaver |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley |editor1-link=Stanley Sadie |editor2-last=Tyrrell |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Tyrrell (professor of music) |title=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]] |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780195170672 |ref=CITEREFGrove Dict. M&M2001 }}</ref> <ref name=EighthRest2016_OMD>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Eighth Rest |website=On Music Dictionary |url=https://dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/1282-eighth_rest |access-date=26 November 2018}}</ref> <ref name=QuaverDictionaryWeb>{{cite web |title=Quaver |website=Dictionary.com |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/quaver}}</ref> <ref name=Gerou1996_211>{{cite book |last=Gerou |first=Tom |date=1996 |title=Essential Dictionary of Music Notation |publisher=Alfred |page=211 |isbn=0-88284-730-9}}</ref> }} {{Musical note values}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eighth Note}} [[Category:Note values]]
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