quarter rest

n. Music

A rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest.

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quar′ter rest`

a musical rest equal in time value to a quarter note.

[1885–90]

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quarter rest - a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest

rest - a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

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References in periodicals archive

For example, a student seeing a quarter rest says "rest"; a half rest, "rest, rest"; and so on.

Through the eyes of a child: pianistic paths for the smallest learners

For example, the first trumpet must be comfortable performing up to c"' nine times, with only one quarter rest for the middle 60 measures.

The Journey for Brass Quintet

And the way the speaker allows the word to hang in silence for a moment (a quarter rest following it), and to sink from the C to F# below, as if it were a complete statement in itself, adds to the drama.

Recorded lines from "America": a new poetic analysis

HN 347 gives the alternate reading of a quarter note followed by a quarter rest with a footnote reading "Some secondary sources give on 2nd beat quarter-note [c.sub.2] [recte, [c sub.1] instead of rest.

NEW EDITIONS FROM G. HENLE VERLAG

B's quarter rest certainly invites a break, in that the only other performance options would be to truncate the bar by bringing cresce in earlier than literal, or distending mia into something more like M's quarter notes.

Text rendering in eighteenth century recitativo secco

In the cello part, the quarter rest found at the beginning of measure 2 is replaced with an eighth rest at the end of the measure so that - unlike the violin and viola parts - the cello part forms only a near-palindrome.

Interpreting music durationally: a set-theory approach to rhythm

29 a quarter note and quarter rest have been replaced by a half note, without annotation in the list of readings.

Alice Mary Smith

There is some inconsistency in the form taken by half-measure rests in the lone movement in 6/4 opening the fifth concerto (sometimes a dotted half test is used, sometimes a hall and a quarter rest), and the beaming of eighths (variously in fours and in twos) is in places puzzlingly irregular.

Guiseppe Torelli