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Mensural notation is the
musical notation system used for
polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th
century until the
early 17th century. The...
- 3:1, with a
system of
mensural time
signatures to
distinguish between them. This
black mensural notation gave way to
white mensural notation around 1450...
- the
basic unit of time, the
pulse (regularly
repeating event), of the
mensural level (or beat level). The beat is
often defined as the
rhythm listeners...
- colloquially, cut time or cut
common time.
These symbols derive from
mensural time signatures,
described below.
Simple meters are
those whose upper number...
- the
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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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...
- note (quaver),
hence the names. It is the
equivalent of the
semifusa in
mensural notation,
first found in 15th-century notation.
Sixteenth notes are notated...
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fewer beats.
Prior to 1600 the term alla
breve derives from the
system of
mensural or
proportional notation (also
called proportio dupla) in
which note values...
- In
mensural notation,
prolation (Latin: prolatio) is used to
describe the
rhythmic structure of
medieval and
Renaissance music. The term is used to the...
- in both
theoretical and
practical sources but
appeared primarily in pre-
mensural notation ligatures,
symbols representing two or more
notes joined together...
