txtDefinition=The second shortest {\uldb note}{\v 89586} value used consistently by Mozart in {\uldb K.}{\v 137211} 465. In an {\uldb Allegro}{\v 147820} {\uldb tempo}{\v 98795}, steady eighth notes sound moderately fast, as in the {\uldb cello}{\v 76489} {\uldb pedal point}{\v 91350} heard first separately and then in the full {\uldb passage}{\v 90954}. Eighth notes are often referred to simply as \'93eighths.\'94 In musical {\uldb notation}{\v 5799} eighth notes carry a single beam or flag on each stem.