0 (especially of a sound or a person’s voice) to shake or tremble -- sự rung tiếng
1 a shaking or trembling -- giọng nói run rẩy
There was a quaver in her voice.
2 a note equal to half a crotchet in length; eighth note American -- nốt móc đơn
The 8 bar subject starts in minims with a second harmonic half in slow quavers.
Note values intensify the rhythm by decreasing from crotchets through quavers, triplet quavers and semiquavers to demisemiquavers.
A melody originally consisting of four quavers (eighth notes) for example, is augmented if it later appears with four crotchets (quarter notes) instead.
The haunting tune features minimal decoration, and is accompanied by flowing quavers on the piano.
Motives 1-3, for example, each present a quaver rest, followed by one, two or three quaver attacks, followed by a note of longer duration.
In the second section it is played against quavers; and in parts of the last, against running semiquaver passagework.
The ornamented melody in crotchets sings in the soprano above a flowing legato semiquaver accompaniment and gently pulsating repeated quavers in the pedal continuo.
Spasmodic dysphonia is caused by strained vocal chord movement, which results in awkward voice problems, such as jerkiness or quavering.
