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Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

Quaver :: Quaver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

Croma :: Croma (n.) A quaver.

Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note..

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music..

Quaver :: Quaver (v. t.) To utter with quavers.

Warble :: Warble (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.

Demiquaver :: Demiquaver (n.) A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..

Stem :: Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc..

Trill :: Trill (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake..

Quavered :: Quavered (imp. & p. p.) of Quave.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..

Quap :: Quap (v. i.) To quaver.

Quavering :: Quavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quave.

Polonaise :: Polonaise (n.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca..

Semidemiquaver :: Semidemiquaver (n.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

Quaverer :: Quaverer (n.) One who quavers; a warbler.

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