eighth rest

noun

, Music.

1. a rest equal in time value to an eighth note.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eighth rest¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance."

From Time Magazine Archive

Figure M: In the original, the eighth rest was written as a quarter rest.

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