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semibreve

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semibreve
Music a note, now the longest in common use, having a time value that may be divided by any power of 2 to give all other notes


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Instead, in the absence of any other early eighteenth-century London productions he gives us an account of Leveridge's Comic Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe with its characters Semibreve, Crotchet, and Gamut discussing the excesses of Italian Opera, possibly further from the text of Shakespeare than any straight-forward translation.
 
 
 
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