Two hundred fifty-sixth note Two hundred fifty-sixth note In music, a two hundred fifty-sixth note (or occasionally demisemihemidemisemiquaver) is a note played for of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of six flags or beams. Since human pitch perception begins at 20 Hz (1200/minute), then a 256th-note tremolo becomes a single pitch in perception at quarter note ≈ 80 bpm. A single 256th note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually
A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London. It was painted between about 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), who according to Gian Pietro Bellori dictated its detailed iconography. The identity of the figures remains uncertain, with differing accounts. The painting is well known for giving its name to the "A Dance to the Music of Time" novel cycle, though this title is first seen in a Wallace Collection catalogue of 1913. Before that