longa
Definition of the Latin term longa in music:
- literally "long"
- note value in mensural notation equivalent to four whole notes in modern notation (with a duration twice that of a brevis)
Language
Latin
Singular
longa
Plural
longae
Combinations
Latin musical terms that include longa:
- duplex longa – literally "double long"...
- modus longarum – mode (the relationship between longa and brevis in...
Musical examples
Music scores that include longa:
- Georges Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 (1872) Page 13
Related terms
Latin musical terms related to longa:
- brevis – literally "short"...
- fusa – literally "poured"...
- fusella – thirty-second note (American English), demisemiqua...
- maxima – note value in mensural notation equivalent to eigh...
- minima – note value in mensural notation equivalent to a ha...
- semibrevis – literally "half-short"...
- semifusa – literally "half-poured"...
- semiminima – literally "half-smallest"...
- subsemifusa – thirty-second note (American English), demisemiqua...
- unca – eighth-note (American English), quaver (British En...