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Quaver meaning
A trembling shake. | A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
Example sentences (6)
Most disco songs have a steady four-on-the-floor beat, a quaver or semi-quaver hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a heavy, syncopated bass line.
Just so we have no doubt either of intention or execution, a certain Abu Jamal, the sargana of a Tashkar outfit, is made to quaver after his wicked plans of blowing up humans appear to go astray: is it America, or Roosia, or the Mossad?
All reels have the same structure, consisting largely of quaver (eighth note) movement with an accent on the first and third beats of the bar.
For instance, main means two quarter-note (crotchet) beats per bar— main means three eighth-note (quaver) beats per bar.
The melodic writing often breaks into quaver (eighth-note) motion, tending to undermine the minim (half-note) pulse with surface detail.
The quaver pattern is often supported by other instruments such as the rhythm guitar and may be implied rather than explicitly present.