Examples of half note

• This pattern then scales down again, to one quarter note and a half note.

• A whole note (semibreve) divides into two half notes, a half note into two quarters, etc. and other notes are made by tying these together.

• A half note with stem facing up, a half note with stem facing down, and a half rest.

• In order of halving duration, we have: double note (breve); whole note (semibreve); half note (minim); quarter note (crotchet); eighth note (quaver); sixteenth note (semiquaver).

• The last bar has two quarter notes and a half note.

• It is played for half the length of a minim (or half note) and twice that of a quaver (an eighth note).

• A metre change brings with it eighth-note motion - equal to the half notes in triple metre that gradually gives way to steady sixteenth-note motion by the end of the passage.

• The foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes.