Look up: neume

1. neume
   the name for a musical sign in plainchant notation which designates a very small melodic gesture sung to a single syllable. Standard neumes contained from one to three pitches, though some conglomerate neumes had four, five, or even six pitches.
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2. neume
   in musical notation, a sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches, predecessor of modern musical notes. Neumes have been used in Christian ... [6 related articles]
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3. neume
   neume (nOOm) , in music: see musical notation.
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4. Neume
   A `neume` (; spelled `neum` in, for instance, the Solesmes publications in English) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The word is a Middle English corruption of the ultimately Ancient Greek word for breath ( )....
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