minima
Definition of the Latin term minima in music:
- note value in mensural notation equivalent to a half note in modern notation (with a duration half that of a semibrevis)
Language
Latin
Singular
minima
Plural
minimae
Combinations
Latin musical terms that include minima:
- semiminima – literally "half-smallest"...
Related terms
Latin musical terms related to minima:
- brevis – literally "short"...
- 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...
- semibrevis – literally "half-short"...
- semifusa – literally "half-poured"...
- subsemifusa – thirty-second note (American English), demisemiqua...
- unca – eighth-note (American English), quaver (British En...