Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century. The...
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devised around 1200 AD and later superseded by the more complex mensural notation. Modal notation indicated modes by grouping notes together in ligatures—a...
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longest notated note (though now obsolete) is the maxima. In medieval mensural notation, the brevis was one of the shortest note lengths in use, hence its...
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Note value (section Mensural notation)
with a system of mensural time signatures to distinguish between them. This black mensural notation gave way to white mensural notation around 1450, in...
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names. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in mensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation. Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in...
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music publishing List of scorewriters Mensural notation Modal notation Music engraving, drawing music notation for the purpose of mechanical reproduction...
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Rhythmic mode (redirect from Modal notation)
development of modern mensural notation. The rhythmic modes of Notre Dame Polyphony were the first coherent system of rhythmic notation developed in Western...
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the value of a sixteenth note. It is the equivalent of the fusa in mensural notation. Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a...
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the earliest known copy of the composition, a manuscript written in mensural notation, was found at Reading Abbey; it was probably not drafted there, however...
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durations by flags (much like modern notation), although in early notations durations were shown using mensural indications, and octave displacement by...
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essential feature of the modal notation system of the Notre-Dame school at the turn of the 12th century. In the mensural notation that emerged later, modus...
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older symbol . The note equates to the semiminima ('half minim') of mensural notation. The word "crotchet" comes from Old French crochet, meaning 'little...
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fourth to the quality of chromatic music. As a notation device in mensural notation, the 14th–16th century system of notating musical meters and rhythms...
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Time signature (category Musical notation)
the conductor, who can see signature changes more easily. In the mensural notation of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries there are no bar lines, and the...
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both theoretical and practical sources but appeared primarily in pre-mensural notation ligatures, symbols representing two or more notes joined together...
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Neume (redirect from Neumatic notation)
which can be used by common office software or scorewriters. Mensural notation Musical notation Znamenny Chant Dom Gregory Sunol, Textbook of Gregorian Chant...
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Dotted note (redirect from Dot (musical notation))
amount of lengthening a dot provides in early music contexts may vary. Mensural notation uses a dot of division to clarify ambiguities about its context-dependent...
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Medieval music (redirect from Petronian notation)
systematic treatment of the new mensural innovations of the Ars Nova (for a brief explanation of the mensural notation in general, see the article Renaissance...
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Renaissance music (section Theory and notation)
as quarter notes) occurred less often. This development of white mensural notation may be a result of the increased use of paper (rather than vellum)...
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proportional shortening of the value of individual note-shapes in mensural notation, either by coloration or by a sign of proportion. A minor or perfect...
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Direct (music symbol) (category Musical notation)
was later adopted into mensural notation of the 13th through 17th centuries. Though a less commonly seen symbol in modern notation, it is still used by...
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short, and may refer to: Brevis (note), a musical note in mensural notation, see Mensural notation Brevis (moth) Brevis (syllable), a light syllable in Ancient...
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music notation from the late thirteenth century (Morehen and Rastall 2001). It derives from the round, stemless semibrevis of mensural notation, hence...
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a British English name for the maxima (music), a note length in mensural notation Large, or G's, or grand, slang for $1,000 US dollars Large, a community...
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Graphic notation became popular in the 1950s, and can be used either in combination with or instead of traditional music notation. Graphic notation was influenced...
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as mensuralism, is a hermeneutical approach to the performance of the earliest transcriptions of Gregorian chant prior to the adoption of mensural notation...
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retypeset mensural notation from 1500 to 1650. ENT was developed to facilitate the clean retypesetting of single, dual, and triple process typeset mensural notation...
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Prolation (category Musical notation)
Prolation is a term used in the theory of the mensural notation of medieval and Renaissance music to describe its rhythmic structure on a small scale...
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(subscription required) Chew, Geoffrey; Rastall, Richard (2001). "Notation, §III, 4(i): Mensural notation from 1500: General". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds...
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