brevis
Definition of the Latin term brevis in music:
- literally "short"
- note value in mensural notation equivalent to a double whole note in modern notation (with a duration twice that of a semibrevis)
Language
Latin
Singular
brevis
Plural
breves
Combinations
Latin musical terms that include brevis:
- missa brevis – missa brevis (shorter Mass composition)
- semibrevis – literally "half-short"...
Related terms
Latin musical terms related to brevis:
- duplex longa – literally "double long"...
- fusa – literally "poured"...
- fusella – thirty-second note (American English), demisemiqua...
- longa – literally "long"...
- maxima – note value in mensural notation equivalent to eigh...
- minima – note value in mensural notation equivalent to a ha...
- semifusa – literally "half-poured"...
- semiminima – literally "half-smallest"...
- subsemifusa – thirty-second note (American English), demisemiqua...
- unca – eighth-note (American English), quaver (British En...