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An eighth note or a quaver is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expected—e.g., half the duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note.
A single eighth note, or any faster note, is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups. [16] When a stem is present, it can go either up (from the right side of the note head) or down (from the left side), except in the cases of the longa or maxima which are nearly always written with downward stems.
$ 1 ⁄ 8 or 1 silver real was 1 "bit". [1] [2] With the adoption of the decimal U.S. currency in 1794, there was no longer a U.S. coin worth $ 1 ⁄ 8, but "two bits" remained in the language with the meaning of $ 1 ⁄ 4. Because there was no 1-bit coin, a dime (10¢) was sometimes called a short bit and 15¢ a long bit.
A bit is an antiquated term equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 cents, after the Spanish 8-Real "piece of eight" coin on which the U.S. dollar was initially based. So "two bits" is twenty-five cents; similarly, "four bits" is fifty cents. More rare are "six bits" (75 cents) and "eight bits" meaning a dollar.
Monetary reform in Spain brought about the introduction of an 8-real (or 1-peso) coin in 1497, minted to the following standards- In 1497: 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 dollars to a Castilian mark of silver (230.0465 grams), 134 ⁄ 144 or 0.9306 fine (25.561 g fine silver = 0.8218 oz t) In 1728: $8.50 to a mark, 11 ⁄ 12 or 0.9167 fine (24.809 g fine silver ...
Eighth is ordinal form of the number eight. Eighth may refer to: One eighth, 1 ⁄ 8 or ⅛, a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole; Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) Octave, an interval between seventh and ninth; Eighth octave C, a C note; Eighth Lake, a lake by Inlet, New York
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Dream Theater's eighth album Octavarium contains many different references to the number 8, including the number of songs and various aspects of the music and cover artwork. "Eight maids a-milking" is the gift on the eighth day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas". [76] The 8-track cartridge is a musical recording format.