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- A neume (/njuːm/; sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line...
- patterns called hexachords. Gregorian melodies are traditionally written using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern four-line and five-line...
- feet on the pedalboard. Early Western medieval notation was written with neumes, which did not specify exact pitches but only the shape of the melodies...
- Gregorian Chant research. Semiology refers specifically to the study of the neumes as found in the earliest fully notated m****cripts of Gregorian Chant, the...
- Khaz (Armenian: խազ) is an Armenian neume, one of a set of special signs (plural: khaz or khazes) constituting the traditional system of musical notation...
- type of neume found in gregorian chant.[verification needed] It is a single neume, meaning it represents one pitch, unlike a compound neume, representing...
- "Ut queant laxis" in neume notation...
- chant, he wrote the complete chant text with the music in central French neumes which were still written in campo aperto, and added a second alphabetic...
- plagios protos or "Β" for echos devteros). Unlike Western notation, Byzantine neumes used since the 10th century were always related to modal steps (same modal...
- indicated intonation, perhaps ****ociated with early musical notation like neumes. Another theory, is that the "lightning flash" was originally a tilde or...