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 Translation for 'whole note' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a whole note | whole notes
SYNO semibreve | whole note
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kokonuotti {noun}
whole note [Am.]
Partial Matches
koko {adj}whole
gastr.
täysmaito {noun}
whole milk
gastr.
täysjyväleipä {noun}
whole-wheat bread
koko ajan {adv}the whole time
muistutus {noun}note
mus.
nuotti {noun}
note
mus.
neljäsosanuotti {noun}
quarter note [Am.]
mus.
kahdeksasosanuotti {noun}
eighth note [Am.]
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kuudestoistaosanuotti {noun}
sixteenth note [Am.]
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puolinuotti {noun}
half note [Am.]
mus.
kolmaskymmeneskahdesosanuotti {noun}
thirty-second note [esp. Am.]
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Usage Examples English
  • The metronome marking supplied by Beethoven himself is whole note = 84.
  • In American usage, musical note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note.
  • In music, a 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 crotchet).
  • Almost all quickstep marches consist of four-measure, or four-bar, phrases typically ending with a whole note (that either creates or resolves melodic tension, see chord progression), followed by a pickup note.
  • The following example is a score consisting of a single whole note middle C in the key of C major on the treble clef.

  • Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value, indicating how long the silence should last, generally as a multiplier of a measure or whole note.
  • of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a sixty-fourth note.
  • Thus, a septuplet lasting a whole note can be written with either quarter notes (7:4) or eighth notes (7:8).
  • In the case of a half note or whole note, it's common to play alternating double stroke sixteenth notes for the duration of the note.
  • In music, a double whole note (American), breve, or double note [...] lasts two times as long as a whole note (or "semibreve").

  • Prolation describes whether a semibreve (whole note) is equal in length to two minims (half notes) ("minor prolation" or "imperfect prolation"; in Latin "prolatio minor") or, like a tuplet, three minims ("major prolation" or "perfect prolation"; in Latin "prolatio maior").
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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