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Tacet may be appropriate when a particular instrument/voice/section, "is to rest for an entire section, movement, or composition." "Partial rests, of course, in every case must be written in. Even though it means 'silent,' the term
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in certain movements, especially in slow (second) movements, and this is the instruction given in the parts for the player to wait until the end of the movement.
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is used to indicate that the performer should remain silent for the remainder of the piece (or portion thereof), and need not, for example, count rests.
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Tacet. (Lat.) A word by which the performer is to understand that the instrument with the name of which it is conjoined is to be silent: a
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music to indicate that the instrument does not play on a certain run through a portion of the music, e.g. "Tacet 1st time." The phrase
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How multirests are now notated, known as the H-bar (which may be narrow, leaving room for things such as an
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which translates literally into English as "(it) is silent" (pronounced:
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Alfred's Teach Yourself Chords & Progressions at the Keyboard
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Classroom Keyboard: Play and Create Melodies with Chords
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Multirest




Latin
/ˈtsɪt/
/ˈtæsɪt/
/ˈtɑːkɛt/
rest
movement
jazz
measures

Thomas Busby
symphonies
brass
percussion

longa
breve
semibreve

anacrusis
accompaniment
guitar tablature
chord charts
caesuras
John Cage's
4′33″

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