Notice the halfnote with peculiar changes of fingering at the end.
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Let's play a simple halfnote melody using only the white keys.
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Now, press the play button to hear your genius, 8-measure halfnote melody!
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Kullak gives 60 to the halfnote at the moderato.
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He marks his metronome 50 to the halfnote.
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A halfnote will occupy 2 of those clicks.
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Every musician understands this principle: it requires longer to sing a halfnote than it does an eighth note.
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Klindworth gives 72 to the halfnote as his metronomic marking, Riemann only 60-whichis too slow-whileKlindworth contents himself by marking a simple Vivace.
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And then they go up in fifths on the halfnotes.
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Drusus kept on, only halfnoting the beauty of the darkness.
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How the solemn splendors of the halfnotes weave an atmosphere of mystic tragedy!
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A Whole Note is held for four beats, therefore a HalfNote receives two beats.
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I answered, but halfnoting the under-meaning of her words, my mind running on deck state-rooms and the like.
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Riemann places halfnotes at the beginning of each measure, as a reminder of the necessary clinging of the thumbs.
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They went to The HalfNote to hear avant-garde jazz in the Village, and peeked into the windows of the small art galleries.
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As the example explains, Cage indicates duration not by whole notes and halfnotes, but by lengths of space and fractional 'segments' of space.