How many Beats does a half note and a whole not recieve in 3/4 Time signature?
The American names for these notes (half and whole) are misleading – they don’t really refer to half of a measure or a whole measure. We only read a half or whole note as a relative portion of a measure in music written in free meter (no time signature) and in that case a whole note is simply the duration of the measure. It’s just coincidence that a half note is half of a 4/4 measure, not the nature of the note of itself. Way back in the very early days of written music, it often did have that meaning, but we don’t do it that way anymore. In x/4 time, the 4 refers to the unit of beat and means the quarter note gets one beat – the x tells us how many of those quarter notes are in a measure. The same is true in x/8 (such as 6/8) or x/2 (such as 2/2); the bottom number tells us the unit of beat (1/8 note in x/8 and half note in x/2) where the top number tells us how many of those are in a measure. In any x/4 meter – the duration of a quarter (crotchet), half (minim), and whole note (semib
