Meaning of sixteenth rest A sixteenth rest indicates a silence equal in duration to a sixteenth note. Since a whole note is equal to four beats, a sixteenth note gets 1/16th of a beat ( beats). The corresponding sixteenth rest represents a silence of that same duration.
A pause or rest in a composition having the time duration of one sixteenth of the time duration of a whole rest.
In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the terms:
- [British] semiquaver rest
- [French] quart de soupir (m)
- [German] Sechzehntelpause (f)
- [Italian] pausa di semicroma (f)
- [Spanish] pausas de semicorchea (f)
- [Spanish] silencio de semicorchea (f)
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