crotchet BrE
quarter note AmE

I'll put up with a few of his crotchets in exchange for that.

"So it is, but I expect we all have our crotchets."

Besides having crotchets about you, he was always honest with his daughter.

So now this one how many crotchets are there?

Many of the things brought forward would now be called crotchets, which is the nearest word we have to old paradox.

Let's write it down and you can see, six, there are six crotchets in a bar.

Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks!

We found patterns in the indentations - fish, crotchets, footprints.

The song starts with a synthesised part playing staccato crotchets.

You're in four four dotted crotchets beats there aren't they?

And count, how many crotchets in that bar?

One must be prepared for quirks and crotchets; that was indeed the essence of friendship.

"Each nation has its curious customs and crotchets."

These competitions are a good corrective to individual crotchets and quirks."

It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets, all neatly caught between lines.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

We all know the regen tank has its quirks and crotchets.

In the first act, the playwright spends too much time cataloging the language and the crotchets of behavior brought about by this repressive society.

The Duke had crotchets in him.

Ideally his verse should be set out in musical notation with crotchets, quavers, bar lines.

I must have my crotchets, And my conundrums!

Another man and woman replace them on stage, their unitards adorned with clear, bright crotchets.

What's four is for crotchets.

The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims, crotchets and quavers there are in a bar.

You must allow me these vaguenesses and crotchets.

The last bar has two quarter notes and a half note.

Quarter notes occupy most of the left hand in this section.

The beginning time signature is 5/4 with the quarter note ca. 40 beats per minute.

The time signature also indicates that every beat is a quarter note.

Therefore every single digit in a beat is a quarter note.

But you must pay attention to the quarter notes and the half notes.

He started simply, playing quarter notes in a pedal drone.

The left hand returns to playing quarter notes as the passage closes.

"I want the claps to be quarter notes," he said.

In church he learned that music is about more than quarter notes, arpeggios and technique.

In this entire first half, the quarter note functions as the basic rhythmic unit.

And now, look at this" - during the second chorus - "just quarter notes.

It denotes a silence of the same duration as a quarter note.

They maintain the speed not of the bar but of the quarter note.

The first theme is based on three staccato quarter note chords.

The song also consists mostly of dotted eighth and quarter notes.

The rest of the song choppy quarter notes on piano and drum.

Some of the others, however, are in 3/2 time, twice slower and moving in quarter notes.

This pattern then scales down again, to one quarter note and a half note.

Thus, a quarter note in cut time is only half a beat long, and a measure has only two beats.

A quarter note is equal to two and a half centimeters (almost exactly one inch) in the score.

And should a whole note be worth four times as much as a quarter note?

The "vigorous quarter notes" Wagner describes go by too fast to be felt as beats.

He learned about the musical staff, quarter notes, half notes, major and minor key.

Note values are restricted to mostly half notes and quarter notes.