Rest (music)

A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause. Each rest symbol corresponds with a particular note value:

Related Topics:
Silence - Music - Note value

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• long rest (or four-measure rest) (not shown)
• double whole rest / breve rest
• whole rest / semibreve rest
• half rest / minim rest
• quarter rest / crotchet rest
• eighth rest / quaver rest
• sixteenth rest / semiquaver rest
• thirty-second rest / demisemiquaver rest
• sixty-fourth rest / hemidemisemiquaver rest

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The combination of rests used to mark a pause follows the same rules as for notes. For more details see note value.

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