In It's Gonna Rain, the voice of a Pentecostal preacher is looped at gradually different speeds, creating a sumptuous sonic texture, and in Piano Phase the pianists have to move in and out of phase with one another, subtly shifting from one semiquaver of a melodic pattern to the next. ❋ Unknown (2011)
She knew it off by heart - every bar, every semiquaver, every harmony. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)
There's this 8 note semiquaver part that's damn damn fast and i still cant get it right. ❋ Yanxious (2004)
He was the only one who could not sing a note, and his rank was dotted demi-semiquaver rest. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
'I am the breve, Carlo here is the semibreve, he is the crotchet, he is the quaver, and that lad in the sea is a semiquaver, and little Piero here is a demi-semiquaver. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Here it is the clatter and bustle of coming into port that is represented; people hurrying about the deck, the young sailors 'motive joyously ringing from the violins and wood, sailors hauling, and the colours fluttering in the breeze (semiquaver motives in clarinets and bassoons), all are preparing for the shore. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)
One is a rapid, sinuous, twisting, shifty semiquaver figure suggested by the unsubstantial, elusive logic-spinning of the clever one's braincraft. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
Kate, who did not know a crotchet from a semiquaver, grew frightened at this talk of trying over accompaniments, and tried to stammer out some apologies and excuses. ❋ Unknown (1892)
The opening bars are, of course, ultramodern: they would never have been written had not Wagner written something like them first; but the combination of poignancy and lightness and poise with which the same phrase is delivered and expanded as the theme for the allegro is quite Mozartean, and the same may be said of the semiquaver passage following it. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
And farther on, in the part of the polonaise where the ostinato semiquaver figure in octaves for the left hand begins, do we not hear the trampling of horses, the clatter of arms and spurs, and the sound of trumpets? ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)
Exquisite softness and tenderness distinguish the melodious parts, and Chopin's peculiar coaxing tone is heard in the semiquaver passage marked tranquillo of the first subject. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)
The second violins' semiquaver figure is analysed. ❋ Charlotte Higgins (2011)
Sylvain Pons was of no more value than an antediluvian semiquaver; dealers in music had never heard of his name, though he was still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
This thread is making me quaver, but only a little - more of a semiquaver, then. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Constantly varying both her tone and expression, she and Bennett threw off the semiquaver runs and top Cs with dazzling aplomb. ❋ Unknown (2010)
