- What do British people call music notes?
- What are notes called in the UK?
- What do British people call 128th notes?
- What is the pitch of C4?
What do British people call music notes?
British terminology – breve, crotchet, quaver, minim – has its roots in Latin.
What are notes called in the UK?
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American name | British name | Relative value |
---|---|---|
whole note | semibreve | 1 |
half note | minim | 12 |
quarter note | crotchet | 14 |
eighth note | quaver | 18 |
What do British people call 128th notes?
(music, principally UK) A note having a time value half as long as a hemidemisemiquaver or 64th note; a 128th note.
What is the pitch of C4?
It was defined so that all Cs are integer powers of 2, with middle C (C4) at 256 hertz.