quarter note

noun Music.

a note equivalent to one fourth of a whole note; a crotchet.

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Origin:
1755–65

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note equivalent in duration to four quarter notes

rest equivalent in duration to a whole note

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quarter note

—n
	(US), (Canadian) music Also called: crotchet a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve

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