whole rest
A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a…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.
» They decided to give the whole project a rest.
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2 sensesA 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.
a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time
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.
Examples
2 sentencesThey decided to give the whole project a rest.
Yanni and Skura chatted the whole rest of the way.
Forms
plural: whole rests| Singular | whole rest |
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