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Definition of Crotchets
1. crotchet [n] - See also: crotchet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotchets
Literary usage of Crotchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"There is another form of common time besides that already noticed, which is called
half-time, has a minim or two crotchets in the measure, and is known by ..."
2. A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue by Luigi Cherubini, Mary Cowden Clarke, Josiah Pittman (1854)
"Third order—Four crotchets against one semibreve. RULE XVII. In this order of
counterpoint, each of the two portions of the bar,—the accented as well as the ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"The figures of the denominator are either 2, 4, 8, or 16, which stand for minims,
crotchets, quavers, and semiquavers respectively (ie, halves, fourths, ..."
4. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"... to be with Child—Church Reform—Dinner of Ministers—Story of La Ronciere—The
King's crotchets. ..."
5. A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed a Familiar Introduction ...by Thomas Busby by Thomas Busby (1811)
"Three crotchets in a bar. g Three Quavers in a bar. ... And a species of Triple
Time, consisting of Nine Quavers in a bar, or ^ Nine crotchets in a bar. ..."
6. Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold (1880)
"Let us ask how a poet's work accords, not with any one's fancies and crotchets,
but' with human nature and the nature of things at large, with the universal ..."
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