half rest
English edit
Noun edit
half rest (plural half rests)
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
- breve rest
- semibreve rest
- crotchet rest
- quaver rest
- semiquaver rest
- demisemiquaver rest
- hemidemisemiquaver rest
- half note
- minim
Translations edit
pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest
symbol for this pause
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