half rest
English
A half rest on a musical staff
Noun
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
Related terms
- breve rest
- semibreve rest
- crochet rest
- quaver rest
- semiquaver rest
- demisemiquaver rest
- hemidemisemiquaver rest
- half note
- minim
Translations
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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