Talk:Quarter note

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There is an alternate symbol for a quarter rest which looks like an eight rest merged with an inverted eigth rest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenpickle (talk • contribs) 13:30, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, that should be included. My memory of it is actually of a basically a backwards eighth note. I'll see if I can find anything about it. Thanks, Mak (talk) 16:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's in. It's a French form, and takes the form of a reversed quaver rest. —Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk | ☮✌☮ 00:32, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

quarter note

I suspect that the name derives from what it actually is, not from what some other languages (including German) call it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamour (talk • contribs) 21:58, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Doubt it; technically, what Americans call a 'quarter note' is really a whole note. In 4/4, you have four whole notes per bar, in English notation. This is logical and intuitive. So the term 'quarter note' most certainly isn't 'what it is' - it's an odd naming convention that came from a literal translation of the German, which I think is trying to say 'a fourth of a bar'. Blitterbug 05:06, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Old notation

The note says that the backwards-eighth-rest looking form of the quarter rest can be seen up until the late 20th century, but the example is from the late 19th. Someone who knows about this (i.e., not me) can maybe sort it out. - Special-T (talk) 23:47, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I looked back in the edit history and, indeed, it used to say "late 19th". So I changed it back. Some petty vandalism along the way that nobody caught, I guess. - Special-T (talk) 20:05, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]