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Rest (Music)A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause. It is generally said that the pauses in a piece of music are as important as the notes. In modern western musical notation, the most common rests (in descending order of length) are the multiple measure rest, four measure rest, double whole rest (or breve rest), whole rest (or semibreve rest), half rest (minim rest), quarter rest (crotchet rest), eighth rest (quaver rest), sixteenth rest (semiquaver rest), thirty-second rest (demisemiquaver rest) and sixty-fourth rest (hemidemisemiquaver rest). -
- When a single bar contains no notes, a semibreve rest is used, regardless of the actual time signature. The only exception is for a 4/2 time signature (four mimims per bar), when a breve rest is used for a bar's rest
- When the time signature is four beats per bar, and the bar is not empty, rests should not include (parts of) both the 2nd and 3rd beats. For example, if a bar in 4/4 (four crochets per bar) had a crochet note on 1st and 4th beats, it would not be written crochet note, mimim rest, crochet note. Instead, it is written crochet note, crochet rest, crochet rest, crochet note
- When a bar is compound time (some number of dotted notes per bar - eg 6/8, two dotted crochets per bar), the rests should not 'go over' between one compound (dotted note) beat and the next. For example, a bar in 6/8 containing a crochet note at the start and a quaver note at the end woudl be written crochet note, quaver rest, crochet rest, quaver note
- Similarly, with irregular time signatures, rests should not span more than one major beat. For example, a 5/8 bar (five quavers per bar) has a 3+2 pattern, starting with a crochet note and ending with a quaver note is not written crochet note, crochet rest, quaver note, but crochet note, quaver rest, quaver rest, quaver note
- In compound time (three minor beats per major (=compound) beat), or for bars with three beats per bar, rests should not span the 2nd and 3rd (minor) beat. Thus in 3/4 (three crochets per bar), a bar with one crochet at the start is not written crochet note, minim rest but crochet note, crochet rest, crochet rest.
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