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Figure 1. A whole note and a whole rest.
Whole noteHalf noteQuarter noteEighth noteSixteenth noteThirty-second note
Comparison of duple note values: whole note = 2×half note, etc.
Drum pattern, quarter notes on bass and snare,
accompanied by ride patterns of various
duple lengths from whole note to 128th (all at quarter note=60)
Audio content icon1 2 4 8
16 32 64 128

A whole note (American) or semibreve (British) in musical notation is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half notes or four quarter notes.

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Whole note

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four quarter notes. The whole note or semibreve has a note head in the shape of a hollow oval—like a half note (or minim)—but with no note stem (see Figure...

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Double whole note

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double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value...

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Quarter note

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quarter note (American) or crotchet (/ˈkrɒtʃɪt/ KROTCH-it) (British) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve)...

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Whole

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Look up whole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whole may refer to: Whole note, or semibreve Whole step, or major second Whole (Jessa Anderson album)...

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Half note

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half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or...

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Eighth note

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An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to...

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List of musical symbols

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note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note. A half note is half the length of a whole note, a quarter note is...

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Note value

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In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the texture or shape of the notehead, the presence or absence of a stem...

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Time signature

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note remains in a narrower, "normal" range. For illustration, a quarter note might correspond to 60–120 bpm, a half note to 30–60 bpm, a whole note to...

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Notehead

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the note value (i.e., rhythmic duration). In a whole note, the notehead, shaped differently than shorter notes, is the only component of the note. Shorter...

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Musical note

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to sound them) instead of pitch. Note value expresses the relative duration of the note in time. Dynamics for a note indicate how loud to play them. Articulations...

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Ghost note

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indeterminate pitch. Notes with value less than a half note use an "X" instead of an oval as a note head. Occasionally a half note or whole note is represented...

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Death Note

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Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm

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consists of one measure (whole note: 1) divided into a stronger first beat and slightly less strong second beat (half notes: 1, 3), which are in turn...

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Tritone

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formed from the notes of the C major scale. More broadly, a tritone is also commonly defined as any interval with a width of three whole tones (spanning...

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Fermata

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Thus, a whole note (semibreve) with fermata would last 4+2=6 quarter notes (crochets), 4+3=7 quarter notes (crochets), or 4+1=5 quarter notes (crochets)...

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Alla breve

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the "beat") is switched from its normal place on the whole note (semibreve) to the double whole note (breve). Early music notation was developed by religious...

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Whole Earth Catalog

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to be. Andrew Kirk in Counterculture Green notes that the Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck Store" which was a 1963 Dodge truck...

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Aeolian mode

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ascending interval form consists of a key note, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step. That means that, in A aeolian...

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Tuplet

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to mean 7 notes in the duration of 8. Thus, a septuplet lasting a whole note can be written with either quarter notes (7:4) or eighth notes (7:8). To...

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Quarter

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rock group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Quarter note, in music one quarter of a whole note "Quarters" (Wilco song) "Quarter" (song) Quarter (Canadian...

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