Definition of the Latin term semibrevis in music:
- literally "half-short"
- note value in mensural notation equivalent to a whole note in modern notation (with a duration half that of a brevis)
Latin musical terms related to semibrevis:
- 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...
- 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...
