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What is the difference between crotchet and quaver?

crotchet | quaver |

In lang=en terms the difference between crotchet and quaver

is that crotchet is a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while quaver is an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

crotchet

English

(wikipedia crotchet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
  • A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
  • (archaic) a whim or a fancy
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
    • Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets , thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms
  • * De Quincey
    • He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
  • A forked support; a crotch.
  • * Dryden
    • The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
  • (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
  • (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
  • (printing) A bracket.

    • Synonyms

    * (musical note) quarter note (US)

    Derived terms

    * crotchety

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
  • (obsolete) to play music in measured time
    • (Donne)
    ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (m)
  • (punctuation) bracket

    • Derived terms

    *

    quaver

    English

    (wikipedia quaver)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a trembling shake.
  • a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
  • (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

    • Related terms

    * semiquaver * demisemiquaver * hemidemisemiquaver

    See also

    * breve * crotchet * longa * minim * semibreve

    Verb

  • to shake in a trembling manner.
  • to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
  • To utter quaveringly.
  • * Addison
    • We shall hear her quavering them to some sprightly airs of the opera.