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neume (nm), in music: see musical notation musical notation, symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds.

Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece. In his five textbooks on music theory Boethius (c.A.D. 470–A.D.
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The writings first address early types of neumatic writing, the origins of music-writing, and the contemporary performance of chant, and then issues, debates, and theories of oral and written transmission that consider changes in the oral tradition, written notation, variations, the role of oral transmission in the formation of melody, and other matters.
The S2201W and S2001W both employ twisted neumatic (TN) panel technology and have a 16:10 aspect ratio and 1680 x 1050 native resolution.
In 1995, after the initial joint acquisition with Notre Dame, Theodore Karp, a distinguished Midwestern musicologist at an institution not yet a Newberry partner, brought to the Newberry's attention a liturgical codex copied in about 1300 that contained a rare example of Aquitanian neumatic notation, a form of musical notation that antedated the square notation customarily found in late medieval manuscripts and early printed tomes.
 
 
 
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