Talk:Hundred twenty-eighth note

message: Surely a note this short would be highly unusual. Do we have any examples of music using it that we could list? Are there any shorter notes (besides trills, etc.)? Is it only used in slow tempo music? Rmhermen 13:30, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)
:Yes, they're unusual, but not unknown. I guess they would be more common at slow tempi, but everything's relative. Shorter notes are occasionally used, but are even rarer. I don't have any examples to hand of them being used I can add to the article (maybe somebody else?) - if I happen across anything, I'll put it in. --Camembert
:: This page  provides the following:
"The shortest notated duration I know of appears in this page of Anthony Phillip Heinrich's Toccata Grande Cromatica from The Sylviad, Set 2, m. 16 (c. 1825). At the very end of the page--the end of the last measure on the lower staff of the bottom system--there are some 1024th and even two 2048th(!) notes. However, the context shows clearly that these notes have one beam more than intended, so they should really be 512th and 1024th notes, respectively. The passage--in 2/4, marked "Grave"--also contains many 256th notes. (How reasonable these durations are can be inferred from the fact that even at a tempo as slow as M.M. eighth = 40 (quarter = 20), a 1024th note would last about 1/85 sec.)"
82.24.189.88 19:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an Eb major scale and a chromatic scale in the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique (Op. 13) that occur in 128 time.  See .  UninvitedCompany 18:14, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: Gardner Read remarks: "The only example of this note-value [256th] known to the author is found in the 4 Movements for Piano and Orchestra by the Polish avant-gardist Boguslav Schäffer." Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice 2nd Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, Inc. (1969): 117. Jindřichův Smith (talk) 22:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm... well done? Wereon (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A 256th note is only as short as the general tempo requires, so your achievement says nothing and you surely don't know anything about music. --2.245.156.198 (talk) 20:28, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 256th note

message: The closing paragraphs say this;
"The logical succession to a hundred twenty-eighth note would be a "two hundred fifty-sixth note," or a "demisemihemidemisemiquaver" in British/Classic terminology. However, these are exceptionally rare, if not non-existent, as no evidence exists to prove or disprove their existence. "
And then say this;
"Two hundred fifty-sixth notes and rests also exist, but they are rare and only exist in computer generated music"
So the are exceptionally rare...and they also exist.  Logic fail, or am I reading this incorrectly? doktorb wordsdeeds 14:54, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just hooey. Evidence to disprove their existence? --jpgordon::==( o ) 15:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Beethoven almost uses 256th notes in his third piano concerto, using 15:8 128th notes. In some editions (e.g. Bärenreiter), 256th notes are actually used. Vivaldi unquestionably used 256th notes. See this link. Double sharp (talk) 05:58, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: (Thinking of creating Two hundred fifty-sixth note. There are enough examples – like the 128th – that make the 256th notable enough (Vivaldi! Mozart! Beethoven!)) Double sharp (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation please?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:55, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Beethoven: 3rd piano concerto, II, Bärenreiter edition (b.77); Mozart: Je suis lindor, Var. XII, NMA edition (b.10); and Vivaldi's RV 444. Double sharp (talk) 05:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: (Re)created 256th note (no plans to add smaller, except as redirects to the section there on small notes). Does it seem OK to you? Double sharp (talk) 10:52, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? 

message: When I first wanted to know the Canadian name for this note, I used a web site that I never bothered to memorize the URL of, but now I believe it is at:
https://sites.google.com/site/ninagilbert/home/british
(This was a long time ago, back in 1999 or so.)
At that time, it only had quasihemidemisemiquaver as this note's name. But Wikipedia is now saying that the initial semi- is the correct name. (The link itself is even saying "I'm not making this up" when talking about the term "quasihemidemisemiquaver".) Any ideas which term is older?? Georgia guy (talk) 21:49, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  128th note's Canadian name; semihemi... or quasihemi...?? 

message: The article mentions that an 128th-note tremolo melds into a single pitch at ♩ = 80 (bpm), with 20 Hz (1200 bpm), but I can’t figure out where this comes from… ♩ = 80 means ♪ = 160, etc. so the 64th note has already 1280 bpm, so… citation, er formula needed.  --mirabilos  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:1F15:10C:20A:E4FF:FE32:6598 (talk) 00:22, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  melding to a single pitch 

message: Why is the shortest note value practically considered the 64th note and not the 128th note since several pieces have 128th notes as well? Χιονάκι (talk) 12:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The shortest note value practically 

message: Why was it not mentioned in the article that the name Hundred twenty-eighth note is American, while the other two are British, as in the rest of the articles about note values? Χιονάκι (talk) 19:57, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  American and British name