scandicus

Hear this out loudPausescandicus (plural scandicus) (music) A neume representing an ascending set of three tones.

Hear this out loudPauseThe word neume entered the English language in the Middle English forms newme, nevme, neme in the 15th century, from the Middle French neume, in turn from either medieval Latin pneuma or neuma, the former either from ancient Greek πνεῦμα pneuma ('breath') or νεῦμα neuma ("sign"), or else directly from Greek as a ...

Hear this out loudPauseA sharp (♯) raises a note by a semitone; a flat (♭) lowers it by a semitone; a natural (♮) restores it to the original pitch. Double sharps (×) and double flats (♭♭) indicate that the note is raised or lowered by two semitones.

Hear this out loudPauserubato, (from Italian rubare, “to rob”), in music, subtle rhythmic manipulation and nuance in performance. For greater musical expression, the performer may stretch certain beats, measures, or phrases and compact others.

Hear this out loudPauseDefinition of 'neume' 1. any of various notational signs used in medieval church music, orig. put above words to be sung so as to show approximate pitch, melody line, etc. 2. in Gregorian chant, a specific musical note, often sustained, or a group of such notes.

Hear this out loudPause[ noom, nyoom ] show ipa. noun. any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.

Hear this out loudPauseMusic symbols are the written language of sheet music - a collection of marks and instructions used to communicate how a piece of music should be played. These symbols represent different aspects of music, including pitch, rhythm, tempo, and dynamics, as well as articulation, phrasing, and more.

triplets Hear this out loudPauseIn music notation, triplets are always marked with the number 3 over or under the triplet notes. Sometimes triplets have a slur mark (an arc-shaped line), or they may have a bracket. Other times the 3 notes are just beamed together with the number 3 written near the beam.

robbed Hear this out loudPauseItalian, literally, robbed.

Hear this out loudPauseRUBATO is an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre. Use your tongue to lick enemies and objects to make your way through metroidvania-like areas, whilst collecting "Planet Bits" to help fix the solar system!

Hear this out loudPausepolyphony, in music, the simultaneous combination of two or more tones or melodic lines (the term derives from the Greek word for “many sounds”).

Hear this out loudPauseThey were developed in France in the ninth century… Perhaps neumes were developed and used at first for theoretical demonstrations, and only occasionally employed to notate a particular melody or to give a musical explanation here or there in a parchment manuscript.