sixty-fourth rest

The Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary says that a Sixty-Fourth Rest is to rest one sixty-fourth the time value of a whole rest. Music Notes are Fractions: A Whole Note = 2 Half Notes = 4 Quarter Notes = 8 Eighth Notes = 16 Sixteenth Notes = 32 Thirty-Second Notes = 64 Sixty-Fourth Notes.

noun. : a musical rest equal in time to a quarter note.

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.

In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet).

In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (North American), or hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver (British), sometimes called a half-thirty-second note, is a note played for half the duration of a thirty-second note (or demisemiquaver), hence the name.

One sixty-fourth note is half the length of a thirty-second note. Therefore, when the quarter note is equal to one beat, the thirty-second note will equal one-eighth (1/8) of a beat, and the sixty-fourth note will equal one-sixteenth (1/16) of a beat.

A rest or silence with a duration that equals 1/4 of a whole note (assuming duple meter). In time signatures with a “4” denominator, the quarter rest represents a silence lasting for one beat in a measure.

half rest. noun. : a musical rest equal in time to a half note.

In Elaine Gould's Behind Bars, it is explicit that, in 6/4 time, the first two parts of a beat may be joined into a single rest. Thus, two quarter/crotchet rests may be joined into a single half/minim rest.

intervals of silence Rests are intervals of silence in pieces of music, marked by symbols indicating the length of the silence. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value, indicating how long the silence should last, generally as a multiplier of a measure or whole note. American English.

Half rest or minim rest A half rest or minim rest looks like this: In music notation, this rest symbol is a rectangle that sits on top of the middle line of the staff. The symbol extends upwards and fills about ½ of the fourth space on the staff. This rest has the same duration of two beats as half notes.

Did you know? Hemidemisemiquavers are the fastest musical notes that are commonly played, and performing them well can stretch human technique to its limit.