half rest meaning: definition | English Dictionary

half rest

noun

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.

Synonyms: minim rest
Related terms: breve rest, semibreve rest, crotchet rest, quaver rest, semiquaver rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, half note, minim