Sixteenth note Sixteenth note In music, a sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the duration of an eighth note (quaver), hence the names. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in mensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation . Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with two flags (see Figure 1). A single sixteenth note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups . A corresponding symbol is the sixteenth rest (or semiquaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same
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