Thirty-second note connected with a beam. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such as sixty-fourth notes. A related symbol is the thirty-second rest or demisemiquaver rest (shown to the right), which denotes a silence for the same duration. Thirty-second note In music, a demisemiquaver (British) or thirty-second note (American) is a note played for of the duration of a whole note (or "semibreve"). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or "semiquaver") and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or "hemidemisemiquaver"). Thirty-second notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with three flags or
Grace note succeeding note; these linked notes are called Kan-swars (= "grace notes"). Kan-swars deal with so called "touch notes". "sparsh" means "touch" in Hindi (Devanagari). These "grace notes" (acciaccatura) are often referred to as sparsh-swars. "Kan-swars" or "sparsh-swars" can be executed vocally and on instruments in three ways: In a book on Sitar compositions, Kan has been defined as 'fast deflection which can be approached while descending or ascending'. The act of Kaṇ being repeated twice, thrice or four times in a single stroke of mizrāb is called Krintan. Grace note A grace note is a kind of music notation denoting