Types of Music Notes

In music, a double whole note, breve, or double note is a note lasting two times as long as a whole note. It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation.

A related symbol is the eighth rest (or quaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration. In Unicode, the symbols U+266A (♪) and U+266B (♫) are an eighth note and beamed pair of eighth notes respectively.

In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet).

A quarter note (American) or crotchet (British, from the sense 'hook') is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Often, musicians will say that a crotchet is one beat, but this is not always correct, as the beat is indicated by the time signature of the music; a quarter note may or may not be the beat.

In music, a sixteenth note or semiquaver is a note played for half the duration of an eighth note (quaver), hence the name. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in mensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation (Morehen and Rastall 2001).

In music, a demisemiquaver (British) or thirty-second note (American) is a note played for 1⁄32 of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or semiquaver) and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or hemidemisemiquaver).

The longest note used in modern music is the double whole note, ... Types of Notes: ... four beats and is equivalent to two half notes or four quarter notes. semibreve: