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How to pronounce “whole rest”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of whole rest with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Claudia Hammond
to look at a particular subject with a whole load
- Definition summary
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
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How to pronounce whole rest
Claudia Hammond

to look at a particular subject with a whole load
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “whole rest”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
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