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whole note
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Princeton's WordNet
whole note, semibrevenoun
a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
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whole notenoun
A musical note four beats long in 4/4 time.
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Whole note
A whole note (American) or semibreve (British) in musical notation is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half notes or four quarter notes.
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whole note
A whole note is a musical note represented by a hollow oval without a stem and is equivalent to two half notes or four quarter notes, and is held for four beats in a 4/4 time. It's the longest note duration in modern western music notation.
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Whole note
In music, a whole note or semibreve is a note represented by a hollow oval note head, like a half note, and no note stem. Its length is equal to four beats in 4/4 time. Most other notes are fractions of the whole note; half notes are played for one half the duration of the whole note, quarter notes are each played for one quarter the duration, etc. A whole note lasts half as long as a double whole note. A related symbol is the whole rest, which usually denotes a silence for the same duration. Whole rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles hanging under the second line from the top of a musical staff.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whole note in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whole note in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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