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Notes and Rests

The musical note and rest are not absolutely defined, but are proportional in duration to all other note and rest values. The whole note (semibreve) is the reference value, and other notes are named in comparison: i.e. a quarter note is a quarter of the length of a whole note.
Note                    Rest
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​Breve - Double whole note (or double note).

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​Semibreve - Whole note.

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​Minim - Half note.

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​Crotchet - Quarter note.

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​Quaver - Eighth note.

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​Semiquaver - Sixteenth note.

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​Demisemiquaver - Thirty-second note.

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​Beamed notes
Beams connect eighth notes (quavers) and notes of shorter value, and are equivalent in value to flags. In metered music, beams reflect the rhythmic grouping of notes. They may also group short phrases of notes of the same value, regardless of the meter; this is more common in ametrical passages. In older printings of vocal music, beams are often only used when several notes are to be sung on one syllable of the text – melismatic singing; modern notation encourages the use of beaming in a consistent manner with instrumental engraving, and the presence of beams or flags no longer informs the singer. Today, due to the body of music in which traditional metric states are not always assumed, beaming is at the discretion of composers and arrangers, who often use irregular beams to emphasize a particular rhythmic pattern.

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​Dotted notes
Placing a dot to the right of a notehead lengthens the note's duration by one-half. Additional dots lengthen the previous dot instead of the original note, thus a note with one dot is one and one half its original value, a note with two dots is one and three quarters, a note with three dots is one and seven eighths, and so on. Rests can be dotted in the same manner as notes. In other words, n dots lengthen the note's or rest's original d duration to dx(2-2-n).

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  • Previous Shows
    • Next Show
    • Testimonials
    • Set Construction
  • Musical Symbols
    • Lines
    • Clefs
    • Notes and Rests
    • Breaks
    • Accidentals
    • Key Signature
    • Time Signature
    • Note Relationships
    • Dynamics
    • Articulation Marks
    • Tempo
  • Members Area
    • Christmas Concerts >
      • Christmas 2022
      • Christmas 2021 Recordings
      • Christmas 2021
      • Christmas 2020
      • Christmas 2019
      • Christmas 2018
      • Christmas 2017
      • Christmas 2016
    • Shows >
      • Show 2023
      • Show 2022
      • Show 2020
      • Show 2019
      • Musical Moments 2019
      • Mid Summer MM 2018
      • Sorcerer 2018
      • Pirates 2017
      • Musical Magic 2016
      • Scores Musical Magic
    • Rehearsal Info
    • Sing-a-long
    • Calendar
    • Score list
    • Your Comments
    • Members
    • Constitution
    • Archive >
      • Jungle Bells
      • CGC2018 Adds
      • Musescore Tracks >
        • A Winter Wonderland
        • Zadok the Priest
    • Posters & Flyers >
      • Christmas 2022 Flyer
      • Christmas 2021 Flyer
      • Sing with us
    • EasyFundraising
  • Links
  • Equipment for Hire
  • Missed Items
  • When the Foeman
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