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sets: ascending eighth notes (U+1F39C, 🎜), descending eighth notes (U+1F39D, 🎝), a graphical generic musical note generally depicted as an eighth note (U+1F3B5, 🎵), and three unconnected eighth notes in sequence (U+1F3B6, 🎶). All of these are graphical
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they are typically beamed in groups of three. A single eighth note is always stemmed with a flag, while two or more are usually beamed in groups in instrumental music.
236: 519:, the symbol U+266A (♪) is a single eighth note and U+266B (♫) is a beamed pair of eighth notes. These symbols are inherited from the early 1980s 575: 687: 205: 523:, where they occupied codes 13 and 14 respectively. Additions to the Unicode standard incorporated eighth note depictions from Japanese 168: 779: 229: 103: 75: 167: 680: 653: 584: 570: 122: 222: 82: 533: 198: 165: 60: 166: 89: 789: 774: 673: 56: 274: 250: 163: 182: 71: 769: 191: 164: 418:(semibreve). Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expected—e.g., half the duration of a 144:
An eighth note with stem extending up, an eighth note with stem extending down, and an eighth rest.
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block includes eighth note symbols designed to be used in computerized musical notation.
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Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight
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Eighth notes may be beamed together in groups (Figure 2). In
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Two hundred fifty-sixth note (demisemihemidemisemiquaver)
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Morehen, John; Rastall, Richard (2001). "Quaver". In
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Hundred twenty-eighth note (semihemidemisemiquaver)
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