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semibreve

[ sem-ee-breev, -brev, sem-ahy- ]

noun

, Music (chiefly British).
  1. a note half the length of a breve; whole note.


semibreve

/ ˈsɛmɪˌbriːv /

noun

  1. music a note, now the longest in common use, having a time value that may be divided by any power of 2 to give all other notes Usual US and Canadian namewhole note See also breve
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of semibreve1

First recorded in 1585–95; semi- + breve
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Example Sentences

He was thoughtfully painting the face of another semibreve and making it large and black.

So much is Don Zuniga, her father, that he does not know a semibreve from a culverin!

Beginning at the 1st complete bar, and reckoning one step to each semibreve—1.

The dotted minim value of this corresponds with the semibreve value of the other.

The last note of the exercise, which was printed as a dotted minim, has been changed to a semibreve.

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