0 a musical note with a time value equal to two minims or four crotchets
1 a note that is typically played for four times the length of a quarter note
For example, many second strains utilize more whole notes than the first strain.
In practice beginners first learn the most common rhythmic value (8th, quarter, half, and whole notes) and ignore the other possibility.
Couperin wrote unmeasured preludes using long groups of whole notes, and these groups were connected by long curves.
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.
The only specified ornament is a trill which is performed on a whole note and which lasts for two bars (11 and 12).
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).
Thus, a septuplet lasting a whole note can be written with either quarter notes (7:4) or eighth notes (7:8).
In a whole note, the note head is the only component of the note.
