Left: breve in modern notation. Centre: breve in mensural notation used in some modern scores as well. Right: less common stylistic variant of the first form.
In music, a double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note[1][2] lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation.[2] The longest notated note is the longa, which could be double or triple the length of a breve, although its use is most commonly found in early music. The longest notated note (though now obsolete) is the maxima.
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notes, it occupies the entire length of a measure in 4 4 time. Other notes are multiples or fractions of the wholenote. For example, a doublewhole note...
component of the note. Shorter note values attach a stem to the notehead, and possibly beams or flags. The longer doublewholenote can be written with vertical...
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sides is a doublewholenote or breve. A stemmed hollow oval is a half note or minim. Solid ovals always use stems, and can indicate quarter notes (crotchets)...
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the modern double wholenote (breve); likewise, the semibrevis corresponds to the wholenote (semibreve), the minima to the half note (minim), the semiminima...
these for each breve (a double-wholenote), which may be looked on as equivalent to the modern "measure," though it was itself a note value and a measure...
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