Who? Me? I do -not- say quaver. But then I be just a stoopid americun.
;-)
Santu De Silva:
>OK, then why is a Whole Note called a Semibreve?
IIRC (I mean it this time!) there used to be a 'breve', which was twice the
length of a whole note and looks something like a whole note with vertical
lines on either side of it.
I could be way off here. That's what I recall from studying counterpoint.
Bob K., soliciting refutations