Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to measure.
- adjective Music Having notes of fixed rhythmic value.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to measure.
- Same as
mensurable , , in musical notation, a note whose form indicates its time-value relative to other notes in the same piece, as in the ordinary modern notation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to measure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
measure ormeasurement . - adjective music Having a
fixed rhythm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to measure
- adjective having notes of fixed rhythmic value
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In these and other works Ockeghem's compositional choices seem game-like, especially to singers reading from the original mensural notation.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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This peculiarity and the fact that these mixed forms employ both mensural and modal notation in alternation pose problems for the performer which can only be solved, as Higinio Anglès pointed out, by subjective musical sensibility.
Archive 2009-07-01 Lu 2009
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At the same time new techniques of composition evolved and were refined: the various sections of Mass settings were unified by means of a constantly recurring cantus firmus and by identical biginnings to the movements, while increasingly complex canonic techniques were developed, and the number of voices and sections, the mensural succession and even compositional techniques were established for certain types of motets.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Birth control pills, as you suggest causing cancer have been proven over and over in large controlled studies NOT to cause breast cancer and actually reduce the incidence of ovarian and uterine cancer by many fold, so yes I would suggest taking hormones to control mensural symptoms (I am an expert).
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Birth control pills, as you suggest causing cancer have been proven over and over in large controlled studies NOT to cause breast cancer and actually reduce the incidence of ovarian and uterine cancer by many fold, so yes I would suggest taking hormones to control mensural symptoms (I am an expert).
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Rational Review 2009
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Two types of notation are employed: Franconian or modal notation, characteristic of the Ars Antiqua, used in the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and a mensural notation, showing the clerk’s mastery of the innovations brought in with the Ars Nova in the Gloria, Credo and Ite missa est.
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