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neume (n m), 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. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. It is inevitable, I suppose, that only a few of us church music troglodytes can still sight-sing Gregorian Chant from the neumatic notation on a four-line staff. Trident announces its proprietary shading algorithm, Motion Video Shading Algorithm (MVSA), which enhances the display quality for Dual Scan Twisted Neumatic (DSTN) and Thin-Film-Transistor (TFT) panels. |
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