English name | USA name | Example | Comments |
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Semibreve rest | Whole note rest | Also used for a whole bar or measure rest, even if the bar is not a semibreve long | |
Minim rest | Half note rest | ||
Crotchet rest | Quarter note rest | The second is uncommon now except in some hand-written scores | |
Quaver rest | Eighth note rest | ||
Semiquaver rest | Sixteenth note rest | ||
Demisemiquaver rest | Thirty-second note rest | ||
Hemidemisemiquaver rest | Sixty-fourth note rest | Very rare | |
Breve rest | Double whole note rest | Pretty unusual, but sometimes also used to indicate a whole bar or measure rest |