Definition of Mensural. Meaning of Mensural. Synonyms of Mensural

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Definition of Mensural

Mensural
Mensural Men"su*ral, a. [L. mensuralis.] Of or pertaining to measure.

Meaning of Mensural from wikipedia

- Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century. The...
- 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...
- 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...
- colloquially, cut time or cut common time. These symbols derive from mensural time signatures, described below. Simple meters are those whose upper number...
- 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...
- the older symbol . The note equates to the semiminima ('half minim') of mensural notation. The word "crotchet" comes from Old French crochet, meaning 'little...
- notation), caused by the greater number of notes in the upper parts. See "Mensural notation" for examples. The name for this note in European languages is...
- 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...
- in both theoretical and practical sources but appeared primarily in pre-mensural notation ligatures, symbols representing two or more notes joined together...
- 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...