Assertion: eighth note | /r/HasProperty | quaver
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Source sentences:
text: Eighth Note (Quaver)
text: a quarter note is called a crotchet, and an eighth note is called a quaver.
text: In drawn fiction, when someone plays an instrument or sings or whistles, the music is "seen" as eighth notes (AKA quavers), regardless of what's being played or sung.
text: The longest value possible to show being the eighth note (quaver).
text: A dotted quarter note is equal to a quarter note tied to an eighth note (quaver).
text: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver), and so on.
text: Here is another example when the eighth note (quaver) is given duration 1 beat
text: When I was young I understood that a dotted quarter note (or dotted crotchet as I learned) was worth 1½ beats and usually followed by an eighth note (quaver) but that didn't actually help me when I was sitting at the piano trying to 'count' 1½ beats for the dotted quarter note and ½ beat for the eighth note!
text: Beams connect eighth notes (quavers) and notes of shorter value and are equivalent in value to flags.
text: Only eighth notes (quavers) or shorter can be beamed.
text: 8 comprises not three groups of two eighth notes (quavers) but two groups of three eighth-note (quaver) subdivisions.
text: 8 means that there are 8 quaver beats in the bar, divided as the first of a group of three eighth notes (quavers) that are stressed, then the first of a group of two, then first of a group of three again.