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In [[music]], a '''sixteenth note'''<!-- '16th note' is wrong; it's a fraction not an ordinal --> ([[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 names. 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 single sixteenth note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups {{harv|Gerou|1996|p=211}}. A corresponding symbol is the '''sixteenth rest''' (or '''semiquaver rest'''), which denotes a silence for the same duration. As with all notes with stems, sixteenth notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the
In [[Unicode]], U+266C (♬) is a pair of beamed semiquavers.
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