This document discusses musical symbols and concepts, identifying different note and rest values including whole notes lasting 4 beats, half notes for 2 beats, quarter notes for 1 beat, eighth notes for half a beat, and sixteenth notes for a quarter beat. It also covers whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth rests which indicate periods of silence for their corresponding note durations.

1. Musical
Symbols
and Concepts

2. Objectives
• Identify the different
kinds of notes and rests
and their values.
• Identify other music
symbols.

3. A written musical symbol used to
indicate the duration and pitch
of a tone by its shape and
position on the staff.
NOTE

6. 4 beats/
counts
WHOLE NOTE

7. 2 counts
HALF NOTE

8. 1 count
QUARTER NOTE

9. ½ count
EIGHTH NOTE

10. ¼ count
SIXTEENTH
NOTE

12. RESTS
A silence in music
for a specified
duration.

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COboErnsh8

14. 4 counts
of
silence
WHOLE RESTS

15. 2 counts of
silence
HALF RESTS

16. 1 count
QUARTER
RESTS

17. 1/2
count
EIGHTH RESTS

18. 1/4
count
SIXTEENTH
RESTS

20. SUMMARY