pausa di semicroma

[Italian, double whole rest] The Italian term for double whole rest. See more about notes and rests in the Appendix.

A caesura is a break in a conversation, a line of verse, or a song. Usually, a caesura means total silence, but not for long. A caesura is a pause, or an interruption. In musical notation, a caesura is a break in the music, which can be a good time for a trumpet player to catch his breath.

Whole note rest: Also known as a whole rest or a semibreve rest, this symbol represents a musical pause that is the length of a whole note. In a 4/4 time signature, a whole rest tells the player to pause for the whole bar. On a five-line musical staff, a whole rest hovers just below the fourth line. 2.

: with feeling : movingly. used as a direction in music.

breve noun [C] (PRONUNCIATION) a symbol (˘) written or printed above a vowel to show that it is pronounced with a short sound: The breve indicates a short vowel, as opposed to the macron, which indicates long vowels.

short, brief A breve (/ˈbriːv/, less often /ˈbrɛv/, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ◌̆, shaped like the bottom half of a circle.

A break may be described as when the song takes a "breather, drops down to some exciting percussion, and then comes storming back again" and compared to a false ending. Breaks usually occur two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through a song.

In music, it's the pauses that make the rhythms. It's in the pauses that the notes settle in and have time to reverberate in our hearts.

The whole rest or semibreve rest is also a rectangular musical shape. These rests hang down from the fourth line of the staff and likewise measures half the length of the fourth space. Whole rests are analogous to whole notes. Like the whole note, the whole rest lasts for a length of four beats in a 4/4 time signature.

The rest symbol in music indicates a pause or a number of beats in which the instrumentalist or vocalist is not making sound. Rests have different values just like notes. You'll notice below that a quarter rest is just as long as a quarter note, a half note is just as long as a half rest, so on and so forth.

Tempo - (Italian: "time"). The speed at which a piece of music is played. Tempo indications are given either at the beginning of a piece, or within it. Sometimes tempo is indicated by strict beats-per-minute or using terminology which can be more flexible.

With classical music notation and sheet music, silence is normally represented by “rest” markings that denote moments in which nothing is played. These strategic pauses can accomplish a lot for both a short melody or an entire piece of music.