Simple Time Rests

Rests are written in music to show a moment of silence. Below are the notes with their corresponding rests on the right. The semibreve rest has four beats, the minim rest has two beats, the crotchet rest has one beat, the quaver rest has half a beat and the semiquaver rest has a quarter of a beat.

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However, the crotchet rest shown in the picture above is an old style of crotchet rest. The rest used today is written as this lineseen in the Glockenspiel section in this piece of music below.

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Warburton, Annie O. Basic Music Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Print, p. 1.