silencio de semicorchea

Silencio de semicorchea meaning*Silencio de semicorchea* literally means eighth rest in Spanish. It refers to the quarter note rest symbol - - in musical notation. According to musical note value definitions, a quarter note gets one beat, so an eighth note (corchea) gets half a beat. Similarly, a semiquaver or **sixteenth note** called *semicorchea* in Spanish gets **one fourth of a beat**. The *silencio de semicorchea* symbol represents a sixteenth note rest, indicating a silence for that fractional duration in the music.