a double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value...

notes, it occupies the entire length of a measure in 4 4 time. Other notes are multiples or fractions of the whole note. For example, a double whole note...

note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note. A half note is half the length of a whole note, a quarter note is...

component of the note. Shorter note values attach a stem to the notehead, and possibly beams or flags. The longer double whole note can be written with vertical...

The double dot was first used in 1752 by J. J. Quantz; in music of the 18th century and earlier the amount by which the dot augmented the note varied:...

note a whole tone above C, and is known as Re within the fixed-Do solfege system. Its enharmonic equivalents are C (C-double sharp) and E (E-double flat)...

note (Am.), or quadruple whole note is a musical note that could be either twice or three times as long as a breve (Am.: double whole note, or double...

the "beat") is switched from its normal place on the whole note (semibreve) to the double whole note (breve). Early music notation was developed by religious...

the principal note is short (Ex. 2); moreover, the double appoggiatura, in which the first note lies at a distance from the principal note, should always...

natural note but a pitch of equal status." Double accidentals raise or lower the pitch of a note by two semitones. An F double sharp is a whole step above...

diacritical mark ˘. Breve or Breves may also refer to: Breve (music), or double whole note Breve, a mark used to denote a short syllable in scansion Breve, a...

tunes. With any note as a starting point, a certain series of intervals produces a major scale: whole step, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. Starting...

sides is a double whole note or breve. A stemmed hollow oval is a half note or minim. Solid ovals always use stems, and can indicate quarter notes (crotchets)...

encountered, the tactus (beat) changed from the usual whole note (semibreve) to the double whole note (breve), a circumstance called alla breve. This term...

these for each breve (a double-whole note), which may be looked on as equivalent to the modern "measure," though it was itself a note value and a measure...

Maison Carrée, temple at Nîmes in southern France French name for the double whole note, which has a rectangular notehead in mensural notation All pages with...

Death Note (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It was serialized in Shueisha's...

require simple notes (quarter notes, half notes, whole notes), rather than rapid passages. Classical players perform both bowed and pizz notes using vibrato...

as a natural (♮) or a sharp (♯) may be used. A double flat () lowers a note by two semitones, or a whole step. A quarter-tone flat, half flat, or demiflat...

the modern double whole note (breve); likewise, the semibrevis corresponds to the whole note (semibreve), the minima to the half note (minim), the semiminima...

fermata Urlinie in G with fermata on penultimate note. Play with fermata (compare with penultimate note at double the value) Problems playing these files? See...

exceptions were made for a 4 2 time signature (four half notes per bar), when a double whole (breve) rest was typically used for a bar's rest, and for...

That top note may also be referred to as the "octave" of the bottom note, since an octave is the interval between a note and another with double frequency...

tuned down ("dropped") one whole step (2 frets) to D rather than E as in standard tuning (EADGBE). The main use for double dropped D is so that guitarists...

or a natural (♮). A double sharp is indicated by the symbol and raises a note by two chromatic semitones. Historically, a double sharp was sometimes written...

the seventh note and the twelfth semitone of the fixed-Do solfège.[citation needed] Its enharmonic equivalents are C♭ (C-flat) and A (A-double sharp). When...

represents a quarter note (crotchet). Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver)...

most often on the snare drum in a drum kit. Ghost notes are often used by electric bass players and double bass players in a range of popular music and traditional...

synonym of breakfast breve (musical) a note of two bars' length (or a count of 8) in 4/4 time (US: double whole note) bristols (vulgar, rhyming slang) breasts;...

resembles the double harmonic major scale. The sequence of steps comprising the double harmonic scale is : half, augmented second, half, whole, half, augmented...