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In Music , a whole note or '''semibreve''' is a Note notated with a hollow oval Note Head , like a Half Note , and no Note Stem (see Figure 1). Its length is typically equal to four beats in 4/4 Time . Most other notes divide the whole note; Half Note s are played for one half the duration of the whole note, Quarter Note s are each played for one quarter the duration, etc. The note twice the length of the whole note is the Double Whole Note (or ''breve''). A similar symbol is the whole Rest (or '''semibreve rest'''), which usually denotes a silence for the same duration. However, it is often used to denote a rest lasting a full bar, whether that bar lasts four beats or not - for example, it is often used to denote a full bar rest in 3/4 time. Whole rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles hanging under the second line from the top of a Musical Staff . The whole note, and especially the whole rest are also used in a more general way in other time signatures, generally being used to represent an entire measure, disregarding its fixed value. For example, a whole rest will have a length equal to five beats if used in 5/4 time. |
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