Mensural notation
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title:
Mensural notation
text:
Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century. The term "mensural" refers to the ability of this system to describe precisely measured rhythmic durations in terms of numerical proportions between note values. Its modern name is inspired by the terminology of medieval theorists, who used terms like musica mensurata or cantus mensurabilis to refer to the rhythmically defined polyphonic music of thei
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Musical notation system used for Renaissance vocal polyphony
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation
date created:
2005-06-08T08:15:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T04:00:31Z
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