Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century. The...

with a system of mensural time signatures to distinguish between them. This black mensural notation gave way to white mensural notation around 1450, in...

devised around 1200 AD and later superseded by the more complex mensural notation. Modal notation indicated modes by grouping notes together in ligatures—a...

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 its...

In mensural notation, prolation (Latin: prolatio) is used to describe the rhythmic structure of medieval and Renaissance music. The term is used to the...

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the earliest known copy of the composition, a manuscript written in mensural notation, was found at Reading Abbey; it was probably not drafted there, however...

amount of lengthening a dot provides in early music contexts may vary. Mensural notation uses a dot of division to clarify ambiguities about its context-dependent...

both theoretical and practical sources but appeared primarily in pre-mensural notation ligatures, symbols representing two or more notes joined together...

fourth to the quality of chromatic music. As a notation device in mensural notation, the 14th–16th century system of notating musical meters and rhythms...

names. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in mensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation. Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in...

tradition. During the thirteenth century, a new rhythm system called mensural notation grew out of an earlier, more limited method of notating rhythms in...

short, and may refer to: Brevis (note), a musical note in mensural notation, see Mensural notation Brevis (moth) Brevis (syllable), a light syllable in Ancient...

essential feature of the modal notation system of the Notre-Dame school at the turn of the 12th century. In the mensural notation that emerged later, modus...

the conductor, who can see signature changes more easily. In the mensural notation of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries there are no bar lines, and the...

1650 AD. Ligatures are characteristic of neumatic (chant) and mensural notation. The notation and meaning of ligatures has changed significantly throughout...

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...

proportional shortening of the value of individual note-shapes in mensural notation, either by coloration or by a sign of proportion. A minor or perfect...

the value of a sixteenth note. It is the equivalent of the fusa in mensural notation. Eighth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a...

portions of facing pages. This process was aided by the advent of mensural notation, which also indicated the rhythm and was paralleled by the medieval...

In musical notation, tenuto (Italian, past participle of tenere, "to hold"), written as a horizontal bar above or below a note, is a direction for the...

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which can be used by common office software or scorewriters. Mensural notation Musical notation Znamenny Chant Dom Gregory Sunol, Textbook of Gregorian Chant...

Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to...

composed so many beautiful and good pieces of mensural polyphony and followed Franco’s precepts." Mensural notation had developed by fits and starts during...

durations by flags (much like modern notation), although in early notations durations were shown using mensural indications, and octave displacement by...

as quarter notes) occurred less often. This development of white mensural notation may be a result of the increased use of paper (rather than vellum)...

symbol . The quarter note equates to the semiminima ('half minim') of mensural notation. The word "crotchet" comes from Old French crochet, meaning 'little...

of white mensural notation, adopted around 1450. Franco of Cologne, ancient composer and music theorist, codified a system of rhythm notation. He explained...

the tenor marked in red. Staff 2: isorhythmic tenor as notated in mensural notation. Numbers 1–3 and brackets indicate three rhythmically identical sequences...