Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whole note in music.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a whole note, or the space of time measured by it. See
note , 13.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a
whole note . It is the longest note in general use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
musical note fourbeats long in 4/4 time; awhole note (US)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
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Examples
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Consecutives on successive semibreve beats are broken by the intervention of a minim if it is a harmony note, but not if it is a passing discord.
Archive 2007-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Consecutives on successive semibreve beats are broken by the intervention of a minim if it is a harmony note, but not if it is a passing discord.
R.O. Morris momentarily indulges his inner Vorticist Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Coldplay won my heart from the first semibreve.....even when Kashata slammed them to god kows where...needless to say she is now totally reformed.
Reflections on Radiohead (fitter....happier....more productive) Minzo 2005
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'I am the breve, Carlo here is the semibreve, he is the crotchet, he is the quaver, and that lad in the sea is a semiquaver, and little Piero here is a demi-semiquaver.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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A native harpist adds the music of his many strings; and not bad music either, though he does not know a quaver from a semibreve, and his harp is of his own manufacture.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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The quotient will be 12 francs for each bar, or the proportions will be as follows: -- For a semibreve, 12f.; a minim
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various
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"If we're going to play duets after tea and you continue to absorb sandwiches at your present rate of consumption, you'll soon be incapable of detecting the inherent difference between a quaver and a semibreve."
The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler
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Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921
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Beginning at the 1st complete bar, and reckoning one step to each semibreve -- 1.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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The dotted minim value of this corresponds with the semibreve value of the other.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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