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semibreve_rest
semibreve rest
English
Noun
semibreve rest (plural semibreve rests)
- (music) A semibreve rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
Synonyms
Related terms
- breve rest
- minim rest
- crochet rest
- quaver rest
- semiquaver rest
- demisemiquaver rest
- hemidemisemiquaver rest
- whole note
- semibreve
Translations
pause
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symbol
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