Definition of Quavers. Meaning of Quavers. Synonyms of Quavers

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Definition of Quavers

Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Quavering.] [OE. quaven to shake, to tremble; cf. LG. quabbeln to shake, to be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. kwabbe, and E. quiver, v.] 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, v. t. To utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. --Addison.
Quaver
Quaver Qua"ver, n. 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music. 2. (Mus.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Meaning of Quavers from wikipedia

- comes from the musical note, quaver. Quavers were launched in 1968 with the advertising slogan "you get a lovely lot of Quavers in a bag", described as "curly...
- An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note pla**** for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to...
- value it corresponds with (e.g. quarter note and quarter rest, or quaver and quaver rest), and each of them has a distinctive sign. Rests are intervals...
- Quaver's Marvelous World of Music, commonly referred to on site as Quaver, Quaver Music, and Quaver's World is an educational music web site. It is used...
- name of Quavers and Monster Munch snacks. In January 1999, Walkers launched Max, a brand with a range of crisps and then a new-look Quavers in March...
- Quaver Nunatak (71°0′S 70°17′W / 71.000°S 70.283°W / -71.000; -70.283) is a small nunatak rising to about 250 m, lying in the northernmost exposure...
- performance issues: if the dotted quaver and semiquaver pairs should be pla**** at the same time as the triplet quavers (such as in bar 10); where most commentators...
- the galloping effect by repeated figures of crotchet and quaver, or sometimes three quavers, overlying the binary tremolo of the semiquavers in the piano...
- time value remains the same. For example, at the same tempo, 8th notes (quavers) would sound like 16ths (semiquavers). In the case of the half time shuffle...
- eight quavers in a bar, divides them into three beats, the first three quavers long, the second three quavers long, and the last just two quavers long...