A quarter note (AmE) or crotchet (BrE) (/ˈkrɒtʃɪt/) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes...

note tied to a quarter note. Subsequent dots add progressively halved value, as shown in the example to the right. The use of dotted notes dates back at...

note (American) or semibreve (British) in musical notation is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half notes or four quarter notes....

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...

the last part of a note should be silenced to create separation between it and the following note. For example, a written quarter note should be played...

Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note "Quarters" (Wilco song) "Quarter" (song) Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at...

in synchronization. Clock events are sent at a rate of 24 pulses per quarter note. Those pulses are used to maintain a synchronized tempo for synthesizers...

half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or...

notation (which otherwise would require a dotted half note tied to a dotted quarter note). To divide a note value to three equal parts, or some other value...

lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of six...

quarter note pulse in (quad)duple time: each measure is formed from (two groups of) two quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into two eighth notes...

note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note. A half note is half the length of a whole note, a quarter note is...

may also apply to notes of different values, for example a quarter note followed by one eighth note, in which case the quarter note may be regarded as...

tie two notes that could be written with a single note value, such as a quarter note tied to an eighth note (the same length as a dotted quarter). This...

corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth note (quaver), 16 to the sixteenth note (semiquaver). The upper...

are divided is altered. While much music typically has a backbeat on quarter note (crotchet) beats two and four, half time would increase the interval...

note is a quarter-note the grace note must be notated as an eighth- note, two sixteenth notes, four thirty-second notes, or eight sixty-fourth notes,...

perceived as basic. This is currently most often designated as a crotchet (quarter note) when written (see time signature). Pulse is related to and distinguished...

measure, where the half note gets the beat. The name "common time" refers to 4 4, which has four beats to the bar, each of a quarter note (or crotchet). In...

notation would be 3 quarter notes over 2 dotted quarter notes within one bar of 6 8 time, quarter note triplets over 2 quarter notes within one bar of 2...

particular note value, thus indicating how long the silence should last. Each type of rest is named for the note value it corresponds with (e.g. quarter note and...

of eight equal parts of a whole Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) Octave, an interval between...

Note: Ta-a Quarter Note: Ta 2 Eighth Note: Ta Te 4 Sixteenth Notes: Tafa Tefe Whole Note: Ta-a-a-a or to-o-o-o Half Note: Ta-a or too Quarter Note: Ta 1 Eighth...

No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but executed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899...

The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name is derived from its ability...

A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone...

4, each bar contains two (2) quarter-note (4) beats. In the time signature 6 8, each bar contains two dotted-quarter-note beats. Corresponding quadruple...

note by approximately a quarter tone. A sharp-and-a-half, three-quarter-tone sharp or sesquisharp () raises a note by three quarter tones. A triple sharp...

meaning: 8th notes match 128th notes; quarter notes (crotchets) match 64th notes; half notes match 32nd notes; and whole notes match 16th notes (semiquavers)...

transcriber) as a string of notes of equal note value would be performed as half note, quarter note, half note, quarter note, and so on, in groups of three...