Sixty-fourth note

A sixty-fourth note and rest.

The sixty-fourth note (also called a hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver) is a note with a value of ¹⁄₆₄ of a whole note which is where it gets its name. It has four flags or beams. In the [math]\displaystyle{ \frac 4 4 }[/math] time signature it has a value of ¹⁄₁₆ of a beat. It is the shortest common note in musical notation

Sixty-fourth Note Media

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  Figure 2: Sixty-fourth notes beamed together

References

• Burrowes, John Freckleton. 1874. Burrowes' Piano-forte Primer: Containing the Rudiments of Music Adapted for Either Private Tuition Or Teaching in Classes Together with a Guide to Practice, new edition, revised and modernized, with important additions, by L.H. Southard. Boston and New York: Oliver Ditson.
• Gerou, Tom, and Linda Lusk. 1996. Essential Dictionary of Music Notation. Los Angeles: Alfred Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-88284-730-6
• Haas, David. 2011. "Shostakovich’s Second Piano Sonata: A Composition Recital in Three Styles". In The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, edited by Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning, 95–114. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-00195-3. . "The listener is right to suspect a Baroque reference when a double-dotted rhythmic gesture and semihemidemisemiquaver triplets appear to ornament the theme" (112).
• Morehen, John. 2001. "Hemidemisemiquaver". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.