QUAVER MEANING CODE

These symbols are inherited from the early 1980s code page 437, where they occupied codes 13 and 14 respectively. In Unicode, the symbol U+266A (♪) is a single eighth note and U+266B (♫) is a beamed pair of eighth notes. A single eighth note is always stemmed with a flag, while two or more are usually beamed in groups in instrumental music.

In 3Ĩ they are typically beamed in groups of three. Įighth notes may be beamed together in groups (Figure 2). A related symbol is the eighth rest (or quaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration. The stem is on the right of the notehead extending upwards or on the left extending downwards, depending primarily on where the notehead lies relative to the middle line of the staff. Įighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with one note flag (see Figure 1). It is the equivalent of the fusa in mensural notation. Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expected-e.g., half the duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note. An eighth note ( American) or a quaver ( British) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve).

Quaver meaning