THIRTY-SECOND NOTE Definition & Meaning

thirty-second note

noun

Music.

a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.

thirty-second note

noun

Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): demisemiquaver.��music a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of thirty-second note¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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For example: an eighth-note rest dotted equals an eighth note and a sixteenth; and followed by two dots it equals an eighth, a sixteenth and a thirty-second note in time.

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