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Definition of Neume
1. a sign used in musical notation [n -S] : NEUMATIC, NEUMIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neume
Literary usage of Neume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1914)
"neume notation was used mostly in connection with the "plain-song melodies" of
the Church, and since the words of these chants were sung as they would be ..."
2. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"neume notation on a staff of two lines, a and rf, an unusual combination ------
73 Guido of Arezzo explaining his use of the Monochord to Bishop ..."
3. Music (1893)
"Instead of a clef the letters t and s stood at the beginning of J\ U« l» Ay neume
NOTATION OF GUIDO OF AREZZO. every degree, indicating tones and semitones ..."
4. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1901)
"... the climacus and the porrectus, the original sign or neume begins with an
upward stroke leading to the first note, and that the second note descends; ..."
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