semibreve in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Translations for semibreve in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

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English
In order of halving duration, we have: double note (breve); whole note (semibreve); half note (minim); quarter note (crotchet); eighth note (quaver); sixteenth note (semiquaver).
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A whole note (semibreve) divides into two half notes, a half note into two quarters, etc. and other notes are made by tying these together.
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While this is happening in the right hand, the left hand is doing the same but in reverse, starting with the semibreve and working towards the semiquavers.
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The difficulty was compounded in the later half of the 13th century, when the lozenge shape came also to be used for the semibreve.
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