Whole Note

 Whole Note:-
                                                   Introduction:-  A note having the time value of  two half notes
                                                                                      or four quarter notes, represented by a ring with
                                                                                      no stem.
                                                                                       As we know that musical note in use for  music, a whole note (American) or semibreve (British) is a note represented by a hollow oval note head, like a half note , and no note stem . Its length is equal to four beats in 4/4 time. Most other notes are fractions of the whole note; half notes are played for one half the duration of the whole note, quarter notes  are each played for one quarter the duration, etc. A whole note lasts half as long as a double whole note.

                                                    A related symbol is the whole rest , which usually denotes a silence for the same duration. Whole rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles hanging under the second line from the top of a musical staff.The whole note and whole rest may also be used in music of free rhythm, such as Anglican chant, to denote a whole measure, irrespective of the time of that measure. The whole rest can be used this way in almost all or all forms of music.


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