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    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...
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  • backup meeting planet, Neume, in the hope of re-grouping with any other Gentians who may have survived the ambush. Upon reaching Neume, Campion, Purslane...
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  • notation was "heighted neumes", in which neumes were carefully placed at different heights in relation to each other. This allowed the neumes to give a rough...
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    chant. It is not known who wrote the melody. Guido of Arezzo possibly composed it, but he more likely used an existing melody. A variant of the melody...
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  • used were called neumes, and they are employed on a four-line staff, unlike the five-line staff we are accustomed to today. The neumes are placed above...
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    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...
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  • Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus (1944) or Visions de l’Amen (1943). Messiaen composed "Neumes rythmiques" and "Mode de valeurs et d’intensités" in 1949 (the latter...
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    needed to be connected. Aquitanian neumes not only spared ink in comparison, but their ability to disconnect connected neumes was also much easier to write...
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  • fois : The poem has twice been set to music: In the Middle ages is found a neume for the Carmen saeculare le 26 est créé au Freemasons' Hall de Londres,...
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    staffless neumes, an archaic system of musical notation that by the time of the manuscript had largely been superseded by staffed neumes. Unheighted neumes only...
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  • indicated intonation, perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes. Another theory, is that the "lightning flash" was originally a tilde or...
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    more or less based on a theoretically endless scale. Khaz is an Armenian neume, one of a set of special signs (khazes) constituting the traditional system...
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    reconstructed by notated sources which date centuries later. The melodic neume notation of Byzantine music developed late since the 10th century, with...
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    North American Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Anthony in Arizona) with neumes indicating the melodic tones and their duration used before the adoption...
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  • with musical notation, the neume called the climacus dominates, contributing to the stepwise motion. More ornamental neumes such as the quilisma are nearly...
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  • being used in Russian Orthodox bell ringing, as well as choral singing. Neumes were developed for musical notation, and as a result several examples of...
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  • (for typeset mensural notation) Finale Forte Frescobaldi Gregorio (for Neumes) Guitar Pro Igor Engraver Impro-Visor jEdit plugin LilyPond MagicScore Mozart...
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  • melodies; while many of the lyrics in the Burana Codex are enhanced with neumes, almost none of these melodies had been deciphered at the time of Orff's...
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  • Barton, Louis W. G. (2009). "§ Influence of Byzantium on Western Chant". The Neume Notation Project: Research in Computer Applications to Medieval Chant. Bélis...
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    marked with neumes, mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. Ode 4.11 is neumed with the melody...
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    43, 47 and 53 appear in the third étude, "Neumes rythmiques". According to Messiaen this way of composing was "inspired by the movements of nature, movements...
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    different plainchant melodies. In addition, several "farced" Glorias were composed in the Middle Ages and were still sung in places when the Roman Missal...
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    rythme ("Four Rhythmic Etudes") Île de feu 1 Mode de valeurs et d'intensités Neumes rhythmiques Île de feu 2 piano 1949–50 intended as a set but each piece...
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  • of the mode, its pitches represented by letters or later by diastematic neume notation. Subsections followed the different chant genres quoted as examples...
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    we can follow his choir with Angelopoulos' edition using Karas' extended neume notation. See Angelopoulos' contribution to the Delphi conference (1986)...
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    ninth century, Hucbald worked towards more precise pitch notation for the neumes used to record plainchant. Guido d'Arezzo wrote a letter to Michael of Pomposa...
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    be repeated or percussed. The melodies are mostly neumatic, dominated by neumes with two or three notes per syllable, although syllabic and melismatic passages...
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    stress one or two pitches, both through repeated notes and repercussive neumes. Both the verse and the respond tend to be similar in style, excepting a...
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    scalar ascent that represents the neume, the scale and the melody simultaneously. It consists of a sequence composed of three hexachords, each separated...
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  • lines above or below these lines as needed. He used square notes called neumes. This system eliminated any uncertainty of pitch. d'Arezzo also developed...
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