quirk
Getting older can bring aches and pains, as well as a few crotchets.
He certainly had more than his share of crotchets, but I was very fond of him.
She shared many of her father's qualities, but without his crotchets and eccentricities.

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Examples from literature

And I harmonised it myself, mind you, every crotchet. 

Examples of crotchet

crotchet
The three ascending crotchets x of this motif are then inverted and repeated three times (each time beginning on a higher note).
Instead, this melody blurs the articulation of the notated 9/8 metre through agogic emphasis on the first tied dotted crotchet.
In the course of the latter half of the year, the six-year-olds all completely mastered presenting a steady pulse in minims, crotchets and quavers.
Taking a tempo of crotchet = 60, which is doubtless already too slow, the scene would last only about 24 seconds.
The common value (or group phase) of all these units is a crotchet.
The solos all stick to the basic duration of 20 crotchets, as can be seen from the form plan.
The crotchet pairs form rhymes and are varied according to the same system as the quaver pairs, however.
At the end of the lesson, the pupils demonstrated their knowledge of the use of crotchets and quavers using home made instruments.
Nine bars later he asks for three steps; the flute repeats an ornamented figure of one crotchet duration in sequence three times.
The piano had a punctuating crotchet chordal motif while the flute part was a melodic, demi- and semiquaver ascending/descending motif with volume changes.
There may be more musical ways of creating rhythm than setting crotchets and quavers to students' names, and to their favourite football teams.
The two motives use notes of relatively long duration and are rhythmically distinct: the butterfly is in minims, the nightfall in crotchets.
For time values we take whatever approximation we need: crotchets, quavers, and so on, depending on what limits we choose.
Example 4, for instance, begins with just two note values (the crotchet and the dotted quaver).
I write what we call digital information, a dot, for example, rather like a crotchet or quaver, but the dot does not say how long the note is to be.
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