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...
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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...
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List of musical symbols (redirect from Notes and rests)
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...
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Notehead (redirect from Note head (music))
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...
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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:...
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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)...
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Longa (music) (redirect from Quadruple whole note)
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...
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Alla breve (section Notes)
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...
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Appoggiatura (redirect from Leaning note)
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...
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Accidental (music) (redirect from Whole accidentals)
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...
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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...
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Key signature (redirect from A-double-sharp_minor)
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...
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Musical notation (section Notes)
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)...
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encountered, the tactus (beat) changed from the usual whole note (semibreve) to the double whole note (breve), a circumstance called alla breve. This term...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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require simple notes (quarter notes, half notes, whole notes), rather than rapid passages. Classical players perform both bowed and pizz notes using vibrato...
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Flat (music) (redirect from Flat note)
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...
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Mensural notation (section Note values)
the modern double whole note (breve); likewise, the semibrevis corresponds to the whole note (semibreve), the minima to the half note (minim), the semiminima...
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Rest (music) (redirect from Double whole rest)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Sharp (music) (redirect from Sharp note)
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...
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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...
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Numbered musical notation (section Note length)
represents a quarter note (crotchet). Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver)...
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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...
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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;...
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resembles the double harmonic major scale. The sequence of steps comprising the double harmonic scale is : half, augmented second, half, whole, half, augmented...
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