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- noun Plural form of
semibreve .
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So I turn up to play and find my sheet music filled with nothing but depressingly unimaginative round blobs called semibreves, which I am obliged to draw out slowly throughout the song.
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So I turn up to play and find my sheet music filled with nothing but depressingly unimaginative round blobs called semibreves, which I am obliged to draw out slowly throughout the song.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Will Byers 2008
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Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Counterpoint is largely note against note, and the textures are dense and busy throughout, with motion most consistently in minims and semibreves.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The 'sault majeur' in this tune would come in the middle of the semibreves in the first strain; at the 'dot' of the dotted minims in the 2nd and 3rd strains; or, again, in the middle of the semibreves in the same strains.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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It is easy to see Sir Toby's musical gifts asserting themselves, confused recollections reeling across his brain, of that old rule in Morley about the right number of semibreves in a strain, 'fewer then _eight_ I have not seen in any _Pavan_.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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It is (as we already know) in Binary measure, and the careful Capriol once more joins in with his calculations of time, saying that he makes the Pavan 8 measures [semibreves] 'en marchant,' and 8 measures 'desmarchant.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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The sault majeur of the 'high lavolt' comes at the _semibreves_ in this tune.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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