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Neumatic notation was later used in medieval music to indicate certain patterns of rhythm called rhythmic modes, and eventually evolved into modern musical notation. Neumatic notation remains standard in modern editions of plainchant. The earliest Western notation for chant appears in the ninth century.

place in musical composition corresponds to one note; “melismatic” refers to a phrase or composition employing several distinct pitches for the vocalization of a single syllable.

Syllables are assigned to the notes of the scale and enable the musician to audiate, or mentally hear, the pitches of a piece of music being seen for the first time and then to sing them aloud.

Melismatic Singing: Multiple notes are sung on a single syllable, adding embellishment and complexity. Neumatic Singing: Several notes are assigned to a single syllable, striking a balance between simplicity and ornamentation.

A style of plain chant that sets one syllable of text to one neume. A neume is a symbol that denotes two to four notes in the same symbol, thus each syllable is sung to two to four notes. This style is opposed to syllabic, in which each syllable has one note, and melismatic, where one syllable has many notes.

The three most often heard settings: syllabic (each syllable of text set to a single note of music) neumatic (from two to a dozen notes assigned to a single syllable) melismatic (one syllable sung to many notes)

syllabic (each syllable of text set to a single note of music) neumatic (from two to a dozen notes assigned to a single syllable) melismatic (one syllable sung to many notes)

In a melismatic music, one syllable can be stretched over many musical notes. For instance, the popular Christmas Carol ''Angels We Have Heard on High'' is known for stretching one syllable over 16 musical notes.

The three most often heard settings: syllabic (each syllable of text set to a single note of music) neumatic (from two to a dozen notes assigned to a single syllable) melismatic (one syllable sung to many notes)

A syllable is a part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit. So, for example, `book' has one syllable, and `reading' has two syllables. We children called her Oma, accenting both syllables.

Gregorian chants are full of neumatic passages that were created for the precise purpose of enriching the rigid melodic structure deriving from syllabic singing.

neume, in musical notation, a sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches, predecessor of modern musical notes.