Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A whole note in music.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music, a whole note, or the space of time measured by it. See note, 13.
Wiktionary
- n. music A musical note four beats long in 4/4 time; a whole note (US)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a
whole note . It is the longest note in general use.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
Examples
“Consecutives on successive semibreve beats are broken by the intervention of a minim if it is a harmony note, but not if it is a passing discord.”
“Coldplay won my heart from the first semibreve.....even when Kashata slammed them to god kows where...needless to say she is now totally reformed.”
Reflections on Radiohead (fitter....happier....more productive)
“I am the breve, Carlo here is the semibreve, he is the crotchet, he is the quaver, and that lad in the sea is a semiquaver, and little Piero here is a demi-semiquaver.”
“A native harpist adds the music of his many strings; and not bad music either, though he does not know a quaver from a semibreve, and his harp is of his own manufacture.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
“The quotient will be 12 francs for each bar, or the proportions will be as follows: -- For a semibreve, 12f.; a minim”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831
“If we're going to play duets after tea and you continue to absorb sandwiches at your present rate of consumption, you'll soon be incapable of detecting the inherent difference between a quaver and a semibreve.”
“Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver.”
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage
“Beginning at the 1st complete bar, and reckoning one step to each semibreve -- 1.”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“The dotted minim value of this corresponds with the semibreve value of the other.”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“There was also a _semibreve_, a diamond-shaped note which was used when two or more tones were sung to one syllable.”
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Musical Terms
Various terms, common and uncommon, relating to musical scores.
largo, andante, adagio, lento, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, fermata, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, trill and 56 more...
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Archaic Musical Terminology
breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver, diapason, diatessaron, diapente, authentic and 8 more...
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Musical Theory and Notation
Words you might find in written music
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