Half note Half note In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet). It was given its Latin name ("minima", meaning "least or smallest") because it was the shortest of the five note values used in early medieval music notation . In time signatures with 4 as the bottom number, such as or , the half note is two beats long. However, when 2 is the bottom number (including "alla breve", ), the half note is one beat
My Name Is Barbra, Two... My Name Is Barbra, Two... My Name Is Barbra, Two... is the second of two studio album tie-ins to Barbra Streisand's debut television special, "My Name Is Barbra", which first aired on April 28, 1965. "My Name Is Barbra, Two..." was released in October, 1965 to coincide with the rebroadcast of the special on CBS. The Medley (Track 11) is the only music from the show, and the other tracks newly recorded for the album. Streisand remembers in Just For The Record: "'Second Hand Rose' became part of a tongue-in-cheek fantasy sequence which was shot at Bergdorf Goodman's...And thanks to