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crotchet
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synonyms: quarter note ???
tags: [britain] [music]
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Definition:1. a one-beat long musical note in 4/4 time, a quarter note2. a whim
image: By Hyacinth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18415316sound file of 4/4 time, (four beats per measure) with a tempo of 60 beats/minute (larghetto):by ajvocab.com
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it behoves youth with all industry to search not only the hard questions of the philosophers, but also the fine cafés of the lawyers, [...], the sphere and globe of the astrologians, the notes and crotchets of the musicians, the odd conceits of the poets, the simples of the physicians, and in all things, to the end that when they shall be willed to talk of any of them, they may be ignorant in nothing.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, p.138 (1578)
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now to one rhythm, now to another (hearing as the whim took me first four level and equivalent semi-quavers, then one semi-quaver furiously dashing against a crotchet)
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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"We had a fellow here once [...] that fancied himself a tea-pot; and by the way, is it not especially singular how often this particular crotchet has entered the brain of the lunatic? There is scarcely an insane asylum in France which cannot supply a human tea-pot. [...]"
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
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The canon said not a word. The shepherd who was like all thinkers, a man of hidden sense, was quite aware that sometimes old men have strange crotchets, converse with the essence of occult things, and mumble to themselves discourses concerning matters not under consideration
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