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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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tempo defined by the
tactus (roughly the rate of the
human heartbeat). The
mensural time
signature indicated which note
value corresponded to the tactus. In...
- in 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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system of the Notre-Dame
school at the turn of the 12th century. In the
mensural notation that
emerged later,
modus specifies the
subdivision of the longa...