In music, silence is just as important as sound. How do we notate silence? We notate silence by using symbols called rest notes or rests.
For each note value, there is a corresponding rest symbol. Below are the 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, revised by Sue Talley.