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  2. Whole note - Wikipedia

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    Since it is equal to four quarter notes, it occupies the entire length of a measure in 4 4 time. Other notes are multiples or fractions of the whole note. For example, a double whole note (or breve) lasts twice the duration of the whole note, a half note lasts one half the duration, and a quarter note (or crotchet) lasts one quarter the duration.

  3. Talk:Whole note - Wikipedia

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    For a note in 4/4 time, "whole" means an entire (or 'whole') measure of beats: 4 beats. In 3/4 time, though, a whole note would be written as a dotted half note tied to a quarter note. For a rest, "whole" always means an entire measure. That symbol hanging from the second line means "Do not play at all during this measure."

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    There may be any number of beats in a measure but the most common by far are multiples of 2 or 3 (i.e., a top number of 2, 3, 4, or 6). Likewise, any note length can be used to represent a beat, but a quarter note (indicated by a bottom number of 4) or eighth note (bottom number of 8) are by far the most common.

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The time signature 4 4: four beats per measure, each beat a quarter note (a crotchet) in length. 4 4 is often written on the musical staff as . The symbol is not a C as an abbreviation for common time, but a broken circle; the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3 4. comodo

  6. Talk:Rest (music) - Wikipedia

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    Whole note: usually 4 beats. Whole rest: usually a full bar. Not always the same as a whole note. Slightly better answers: Whole note: the number of beats it gets is equal to the number on the bottom of the time signature, except in compound time. In compound time, a DOTTED whole note gets beats equal to HALF of that bottom number.

  7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    4 4 is used so often that it is also called "common time", and it may be indicated with rather than numbers. Other frequently used time signatures are 3 4 (three beats per bar, with each beat being a quarter note); 2 4 (two beats per bar, with each beat being a quarter note); 6 8 (six beats per bar, with each beat being an eighth note) and 12

  8. Earl Young: The Man Who Invented Disco’s Beat - AOL

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    By pushing the R&B’s tempo and adding the four-on-the-floor beat, Young and M.F.S.B. created an impressive run of classic tunes that laid the foundation for the genre that would come to be known ...

  9. Longa (music) - Wikipedia

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    A longa in white-mensural notation. A longa rest (modern form) worth two breves. A longa (pl. longae, or sometimes longe), long, quadruple note (Am.), or quadruple whole note is a musical note that could be either twice or three times as long as a breve (Am.: double whole note, or double note), four or six times as long as a semibreve (Am.: whole note), that appears in early music.