Hundred twenty-eighth note

A single 128th note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups.

[4] Notes this short are very rare in printed music, but not unknown.

For example, they occur in the first movement of Beethoven's Pathétique Piano Sonata (Op.

[5][6] Likewise, 128th notes are used in the explicitly notated ornamental runs in the opening Adagio of Bach's g minor Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (BWV 1001).

13 "Quasi una fantasia" (bar 24 in the adagio movement) where it is followed by an ascending run of 128th notes,[8] as well as in the finale of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges'.

Beethoven used hundred twenty-eighth notes in the first movement of his Pathétique Sonata (Op. 13)
A hundred twenty-eighth note with stem pointing up, a hundred twenty-eighth note with stem pointing down, and a hundred twenty-eighth rest.
Hundred twenty-eighth notes beamed together.