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The listening second graders, most of whom wore uniforms (light-blue polo shirts, dark-blue pants and skirts) were sitting on a rug decorated with eighth notes, piano keys, and a second-grader-size treble clef.
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Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Michele wore a pin in the shape of the AgroPlay logo, an eighth note shaped like a leaf.
—Carolina Abbott Galvão, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
Benson starts playing it with these staccato eighth notes high up on the piano.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 June 2025
So fewer 16th notes, fewer eighth notes, and fewer 32nd notes — a lot of, like, whole notes and quarter notes just to let that thing sing.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Mean Girls’ title graphic features a tiny eighth note inside the a as the lone hint at the remake’s Broadway origins.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
For the coda, Shostakovich and Mravinsky apparently settled on a metronome marking of eighth note = 184 or 188.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
There is, however, an eighth note – do.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2021
For Armstrong, each eighth note did not need to have the same weight or duration on every occasion that an eighth note appeared.
—Popular Science, 30 May 2020
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Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Michele wore a pin in the shape of the AgroPlay logo, an eighth note shaped like a leaf.
—Carolina Abbott Galvão, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
Benson starts playing it with these staccato eighth notes high up on the piano.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 June 2025
So fewer 16th notes, fewer eighth notes, and fewer 32nd notes — a lot of, like, whole notes and quarter notes just to let that thing sing.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Mean Girls’ title graphic features a tiny eighth note inside the a as the lone hint at the remake’s Broadway origins.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
For the coda, Shostakovich and Mravinsky apparently settled on a metronome marking of eighth note = 184 or 188.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
There is, however, an eighth note – do.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2021
For Armstrong, each eighth note did not need to have the same weight or duration on every occasion that an eighth note appeared.
—Popular Science, 30 May 2020
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“Eighth note.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eighth%20note. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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