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Definition of Neumes
1. neume [n] - See also: neume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neumes
Literary usage of Neumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The sources of the modern system of writing were the neumes, which were marks
put over the words to be sung, and indicated vaguely the inflections or ..."
2. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"The development of the neumes out of the Greek accents—An early codex of Virgil's
works, with neumes—The neumatic notation— The Romanian signs—Free ..."
3. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"The neumes did not indicate precise sounds on distinct degrees, but groups of
sounds, not unlike the signs of the turn and the trill (j>s and /w) in modern ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings by American Library Institute (1918)
"Any treatment of the neumes, or red guide marks, must necessarily be ...
An examination of these neumes and their usage reveals the fact that they always ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The signs which he placed on and between the lines were not notes, but the old
neumes. In addition to the works enumerated in the bibliography, ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"These two neumes represented respectively, a higher, followed by a lower, ...
The construction of the remaining neumes can easily be understood by comparing ..."
7. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1851)
"neumes appended over the " Responsorium graduale," and which are continued
throughout the MS. occasionally accompanied by the explanatory letters. ..."
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