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 Translation for 'quaver' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a quaver | quavers
VERB   to quaver | quavered | quavered
quavering | quavers
SYNO eighth note | quaver | to quaver | ...
mus.
åttedelsnote {m}
quaver [Br.]
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Translation for 'quaver' from English to Norwegian

quaver [Br.]
åttedelsnote {m}mus.
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Usage Examples English
  • In Swedish folk music, the quaver or eight-note polska has a similar rhythm to the mazurka, and the two dances have a common origin.
  • These occur frequently in Bennett in semi-quaver runs, in which case they are written out in full.
  • Similarly to other Keane songs such as "Somewhere Only We Know", the song follows a quaver-note driven sound.
  • The second is a two-voice canon in the right hand over a steady quaver accompaniment.
  • time with a preponderance of quaver rhythms. Bach uses close but not exact imitation: the musical pattern in one part reappears a bar later in another (sometimes inverted).

  • This movement is fast and light, with the left hand playing an almost continuous quaver accompaniment.
  • Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver), and so on.
  • In this movement the main motif consists of a brief glissando followed by a staccato quaver chain on a single note,in octaves.
  • The last contrapuntal movement, although not labelled as a bourrée, makes reference to this dance form by commencing with a quaver figure on the fourth beat of the bar.
  • Upon its release, Ian Gittins of "Melody Maker" described it as a "real curio" as Bush's "ickle-girl quaver is applied as liberally as Elt's cod space-epic is unexpectedly white-reggaed up behind her".

  • In Baroque music, a Lombard rhythm consists of a stressed sixteenth note, or semiquaver, followed by a dotted eighth note, or dotted quaver.
  • Noisey called Rey Pila's "most excellent new album's" sound as "a little new wave, a little Cars, a little bit of a Bowie quaver, a pinch of Q Lazzarus, a lot of switchblade cool".
  • The melody of the A section is primarily chromatic and conjunct, except the quaver length four note arpeggios at the end of each second bar.
  • time, traditionally with accents on 5 of the 9 beats — two pairs of crotchet/quaver (quarter note/eighth note) followed by a dotted crotchet note.
  • The prelude commences with a semi-quaver scale from the pedals, and then the manuals begin with an intricate quaver pattern between the hands.

  • This phrase and a repeated quaver figure are passed freely between soloists and ripieno in a movement that relies on musical texture.
  • Another critic noted that there "is not a superfluous quaver in "Kullervo" and admired the "sinuously coiled melodies [...] quirky ostinato figures, long-held pedal-points, sardonically percussive setting of arioso dialogue".
  • Quavers are a deep-fried potato-based British snack food.
  • Loewe's accompaniment is in semiquaver groups of six in [...] time and marked [...] (fast).
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