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Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..

Polonaise :: Polonaise (n.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca..

Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..

Warble :: Warble (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater..

Warble :: Warble (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.

Hemi-demi-semiquaver :: Hemi-demi-semiquaver (n.) A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note..

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Quaver :: Quaver (v. t.) To utter with quavers.

Quave :: Quave (v. i.) To quaver.

Quap :: Quap (v. i.) To quaver.

Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

Semidemiquaver :: Semidemiquaver (n.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

Demisemiquaver :: Demisemiquaver (n.) A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note..

Trill :: Trill (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake..

Tremble :: Tremble (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles..

Quaver :: Quaver (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument.

Quavering :: Quavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quave.

Semiquaver :: Semiquaver (n.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

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