Sentence examples for half notes from inspiring English sources
"Gayle, 18 through 20, play whole notes, not half notes.
"The USA jersey looks like a Scotland one ripped in half," notes Simon Harley.
Meanwhile, the durations of the notes lengthen by degrees, from quarter notes to dotted quarters and then to half notes.
Numbers are everywhere in music, down to the differences between quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes.
But the oboist's are measure-filling dotted half notes, tied together, demanding an almost constant expenditure of breath.
She's a cunning actress, blessed with a deep, compelling voice, whose authority powerfully registered all the mercurial half notes of acerbity and panic.
"A little more than half could identify a half note.
Thus, the notation "M.M. (Maelzel's metronome) {half note} = 60" indicates that at 60 oscillations per minute the half note will receive one beat.
Wes Montgomery, "Smokin' at the Half Note" (Verve, 2005; tracks recorded 1965).
The A at 62 is now on the downbeat and it's a half note.
That tune, a sort of theme song, resurfaces in a 1965 radio broadcast from the Half Note.
