Reading Music
Rests
In music, silence is just as important as sound. How do we notate silence? We notate silence by using symbols called rest notes, or simply rests.
There is an equivalent rest symbol for each note value. Below we can see the corresponding rest symbols for the note values we already know:
Note Name
(USA)Note Name
(England)Symbol Rest Whole Note Semibreve Half Note Minim Quarter Note Crotchet
Example:
Translated by Dan Román, English version revised by Sue Talley
