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- noun music An early European system of
musical notation in which eachnote was given an exacttime value
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Thus the laws of counterpoint and a system of notation fixing the exact time-value of each note (mensuralism) came into existence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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