In music, a quarter note (American or "German" terminology) or crotchet (British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve), and is a prominent feature in Arabic music. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. In Music, the term note has two primary meanings 1 a sign used in Musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a Sound; In Music, a whole note (American or "German" terminology or semibreve (British or "classical" terminology is a Note represented Arabic music or Arab music ( Arabic: موسيقى عربية;) includes several genres and styles of Music ranging from Arabic classical Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. In music a note head is the oval part of a Note. Noteheads may be coloured completely black or white indicating the Note value (i Stems can refer to two things in music relating to music notation and production The stem usually points upwards if it is below the middle line of the stave or downwards if it is on or above the middle line. In standard Western Musical notation, the staff ( AmE) or stave However, this may be changed if there is more than one part to differentiate between the parts. The head of the note also reverses its orientation in relation to the stem. (See image. )

In Unicode, the symbol is U+2669 (♩). In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's

A quarter note with stem facing up, a quarter note with stem facing down, and a quarter rest.

A related symbol is the quarter rest (or crotchet rest). A rest is an interval of Silence in a piece of Music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause It denotes a silence of the same duration as a quarter note. Some describe the quarter rest as a "z joined to a c. "

The note derives from the semiminima of mensural notation. Mensural notation is the musical notation system which was used in European music from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600. The word crotchet comes from Old French crochet, meaning 'little hook', diminutive of croc, 'hook', because of the hook used on the note in black notation. Old French was the Romance Dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium Crochet (kroʊˈʃeɪ is a process of creating fabric from Yarn or thread using a Crochet hook. However, because the hook appeared on the eighth note (or quaver) in the later white notation, the modern French term croche refers to an eighth note. The term quarter note is a loan translation of German Viertelnote. In Linguistics, a calque (kælk or loan translation is a Word or Phrase borrowed from another Language by Literal, word-for-word

The names of this note (and rest) in European languages vary greatly:

The French and Spanish names for the note (both meaning "black") derive from the fact that the semiminima was the longest note to be colored in mensural white notation, which is true as well of the modern form. The Greek names mean "quarter" (for the note) and "quarter's pause" (for the rest); all rests in music are called "pauses" in Greek.