1024th note

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1024th note (plural 1024th notes)

  1. (music, US, rare) A note played for 1/1024 of the duration of a whole note.
    • 1970, Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings of the National Conference (volume 25, page 330)
      [] handles precise time distinctions (to a 1024th note). Many error correction and detection features are included in the program.
    • 1979, Kenneth Ralph Gartner, The Expansion of Pianism Since 1945, page 42:
      [] 1024th notes in the first line of the "Thoreau" movement, an indication to the performer to play as fast as he can. (1024th notes are exceptionally rare in the musical literature.)
    • 1979, Harry Raphael Garvin, James M. Heath, The Arts and Their Interrelations, page 125:
      [] 1024th notes, atonality, and unbarred sections.

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