Lexicographical Neighbors of Neums
Literary usage of Neums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As has been sufficiently indicated, the neums merely marked the rise or fall of
the melody. They gave, in themselves, no clear information as to the exact ..."
2. A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the by Ulick Ralph Burke (1900)
"Square notes placed on lines take the place of the neums written over the words
to be sung, in the thirteenth century ; and on? of the most beautiful and ..."
3. A New School of Gregorian Chant by Dominicus Johner (1906)
"Full neums; such are all those above mentioned. ft) Abbreviated in the notation:
liquescent ... The liquescent neums are easily rendered, like the full ..."
4. The Elements of Plainsong: Compiled from a Series of Lectures Delivered by Henry Bremridge Briggs (1895)
"In some MSS. there are small strokes across the heads of several neums, and these
serve as signs for a certain prolongation of the note, and coincide with ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the ...by Scientific American, inc by Scientific American, inc (1905)
"Above, below and between these two lines the neums were written. ... Though the
neums as a system of notation were superseded by the more precise invention ..."
6. Journal of Theological Studies (1905)
"... which are separated from the preceding by a slight break, will be referred to
as Part II.] The neums clearly shew that these insertions ..."
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