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How to use crotchets in a sentence

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Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
In this connection it is noteworthy that the violins in bars 3-4 play in dotted crotchets, the three-eight equivalent of the original dotted minims.
Laughing at the artist's crotchets is the only way I know to stay engaged with some of his more solemn scenes.
It consists of a dialogue between orchestra and piano, the latter oposing an orchestral theme and staccato crotchets and quavers in an expressive phrase quasi recitando.
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
In any case these chord progressions are similar to those found in the preludes of solo sonatas 1 and 8 which are notated with values of crotchets and minims.
Briggs was not the only member of his family who had his crotchets.
He became an ever more convinced Copernican, but he had his crotchets.
Picasso was excited by El Greco's vertiginous formal inventions, and he dismissed the earlier painter's religiosity as one would a revered brother's harmless crotchets.
That is Housman for you: the more simple, even heroic, the note he sounds — and the words of the poem above are as plain as crotchets on a stave — the more you catch a strain of discord or unease beating time below.
Certain cadences strongly recall, among others, Robert de Visée, such as the beginning of the following Sarabande which uses the dotted quaver formula rather than equal crotchets or quavers.
Examples from Classical Literature
After them came trooping wags of innumerous crotchets, bright, belligerent Quaker, and moonshine morosoph Wilson.
The claws or crotchets, though general, are not universal, in lepidopterous larv.
The exact durations of quavers and crotchets, and their alignment with the clap beats, varies somewhat across performances.
But, as I said, it's a matter of supply and demand and punters may still prefer crotches to crotchets, as I opined in that first column.
It has been argued that though we think we read them, with exasperation at their longueurs and crotchets, masterpieces actually read us.
The words are much longer than in English, so sometimes we have had to split the musical notes, for example make a minim into two crotchets, to make the words fit.
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