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The word "crotchet" comes from Old French crochet, meaning 'little hook', diminutive of croc, 'hook', because of the hook used on the note in 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.
Crotchet Castle is the sixth novel by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1831. [ 1 ] As in his earlier novel Headlong Hall , Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work.
Often accompanied by a tabor in a rhythmic pattern of minim–crotchet–crotchet (1 2 – 1 4 – 1 4) or similar. [9] This dance was generally paired with the Galliard. [clarification needed] Usually no florid or running passages in instrumental ensemble settings, but pavans for solo instruments usually included written-out repeat sections ...
Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Irish engineer and mystery author, remembered best for the character of Inspector Joseph French. A railway engineer by training, Crofts introduced railway themes into many of his stories, which were notable for their intricate planning.
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: / ˈ r ɒ s t ɒ̃ /, [1] US: / r ɔː ˈ s t ɒ̃, ˈ r ɒ s t æ n d /, [2] [3] French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). [1] Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. He was born in Dijon and died in Langres.
Voiles is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy that was composed in 1909. It is the second piece in Debussy's first book of préludes , published in 1910. The title may be translated as either veils or sails ; both meanings can be connected to the musical structure (see below).