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In [[music]], a '''16th note''' ([[American English|American]]) or '''semiquaver''' ([[British English|British]]) is a [[Musical note|note]] played for half the duration of an [[eighth note]] (quaver), hence the name. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in [[mensural notation]], first found in 15th-century notation {{harv|Morehen and Rastall|2001}}.
Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in [[note head]] and a straight [[note stem]] with two [[flag (note)|flag]]s. (see Figure 1). A similar symbol is the '''16th rest''' (or '''semiquaver rest'''), which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, 16th notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of the [[musical staff]]. When they are on or above the middle line, they are drawn with stems on the left of the note head, facing down. Flags are always on the right side of the stem, and curve to the right. On stems facing up, the flags start at the top and curve down; for downward facing stems, the flags start at the bottom of the stem and curve up. When multiple 16th notes or eighth notes (or 32nd notes, etc.) are next to each other, the flags may be connected with a [[Beam (music)|beam]], like the notes in Figure 2. Note the similarities in notating 16th notes and [[eighth note]]s. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such as [[thirty-second note|32nd note]]s (demisemiquavers) and [[sixty-fourth note|64th note]]s (hemidemisemiquavers).
In [[Unicode]], U+266C (♬) is a pair of beamed semiquavers.
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