half-note

Conductors should mark the changes, and conduct them (beating the half-note, as much as possible); singers need only keep an even quarter-note pulse, whether duple or compound, and follow the natural rhythm and accentuation of the text.

Introits for Treble Choir 2009

A half-note the wrong direction is not appreciated.

From Twitter 03-06-2010 e_moon60 2010

Notes start with a whole one and then get broken down into fractions -- half-note, quarter-note, eighth, etc., each has a different symbol, and they have funny names.

More on Music Steve Perry 2010

I also dated someone who appeared to be highly compatible with me — we had much in common, and strong physical chemistry — but while our sensibilities were similar, they proved to be a half-note off, so we never quite felt in harmony, or never viewed the world through quite the same lens.

Marry Him! 2008

I agree that the "6" in the first cake is a half note - though they're not typically angled, it would have probably looked even stranger if the half-note was standing straight.

They'll NEVER Notice 2010

I also dated someone who appeared to be highly compatible with me — we had much in common, and strong physical chemistry — but while our sensibilities were similar, they proved to be a half-note off, so we never quite felt in harmony, or never viewed the world through quite the same lens.

Marry Him! 2008

The cello section sounded like their strings had gone a half-note flat.

String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

“Have you been telling Mr. Raut of all these contrasts of flame and shadow you think so splendid?” said the woman, turning now to her husband for the first time, her confidence creeping back again, her voice just one half-note too high.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

The suspension, instead of being sustained as a half-note, may be repeated on the second quarter, as at _c_.

A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons Friedrich Johann Lehmann

For the present the suspension should not be less than a half-note or its rhythmic equivalent in the ornamental resolution.

A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons Friedrich Johann Lehmann