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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 4 4 time. The term "quarter note" is a calque (loan-translation) of the German term Viertelnote.
Crotchet / Quarter note [4] [5] Quaver / Eighth note For notes of this length and shorter, the note has the same number of flags (or hooks) as the rest has branches. Semiquaver / Sixteenth note: Demisemiquaver / Thirty-second note: Hemidemisemiquaver / Sixty-fourth note: Semihemidemisemiquaver / Quasihemidemisemiquaver / Hundred twenty-eighth ...
Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver), and so on. Dashes after a note lengthen it, each dash by the length of a quarter note. A dot after the plain or underlined note works increases its length by half, and two dots by three quarters.
The duration (note length or note value) is indicated by the form of the note-head or with the addition of a note-stem plus beams or flags. A stemless hollow oval is a whole note or semibreve, a hollow rectangle or stemless hollow oval with one or two vertical lines on both sides is a double whole note or breve.
The length of a rest corresponds with that of a 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 quarter rest, or quaver and quaver rest), and each of them has a distinctive sign.
4: four beats per measure, each beat a quarter note (a crotchet) in length. 4 4 is often written on the musical staff as . The symbol is not a C as an abbreviation for common time, but a broken circle; the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3 4. comodo Comfortable (i.e. at moderate speed); also, allegro comodo, tempo comodo, etc. comp
A number of dots (n) lengthen the note value by 2 n − 1 / 2 n its value, so two dots add two lower note values, making a total of one and three quarters times its original duration. The rare three dots make it one and seven eighths the duration, and so on.
5 is written as a normal quarter note, four quarter notes complete the bar, but the whole bar lasts only 4 ⁄ 5 of a reference whole note, and a beat 1 ⁄ 5 of one (or 4 ⁄ 5 of a normal quarter note). This is notated in exactly the same way that one would write if one were writing the first four quarter notes of five quintuplet quarter notes.