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词汇 neume
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Definition of neume in English:

neume

(also neum)
noun njuːmn(j)um
Music
  • 1(in plainsong) a note or group of notes to be sung to a single syllable.

    〔乐〕(素歌中)纽玛记谱法

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Comparative analysis of this neume shows that the third note is often divided into two, which would indicate that it is a long.
    • To illustrate the development from neumes to notes, we take the Offertory Illumina, from the 10th Sunday.
    • For example, an accidental may appear two or more neumes prior to the modified note.
    • There were also ‘liquescent’ neumes - ornamental neumes that required special types of vocal delivery.
    • And yet, just how and where we moved from the neume to the square note has not been studied until now.
    1. 1.1 A sign indicating a neume.
      纽玛音符
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The only strange-looking neumes are the slightly curved diagonal strokes, but these are not difficult.
      • If two versions of the same song can be found, then the later manuscript can be used as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to help determine what the earlier neumes mean and how they can be interpreted.
      • This notation, common in some form or another to all early manuscripts, consisted of staffless ‘neumes ', signs that to a certain extent indicate the contour of the melodies but not the exact intervals.
      • In the 11 th Century, the neums are placed on lines for better pitch accuracy.
      • Rhythmic letters and episemas can be attached to these elements, and will stay with the neume where it is dragged on the staff.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French neume, from medieval Latin neu(p)ma, from Greek pneuma 'breath'.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of neume in US English:

neume

nounn(y)o͞omn(j)um
Music
  • 1(in plainsong) a note or group of notes to be sung to a single syllable.

    〔乐〕(素歌中)纽玛记谱法

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example, an accidental may appear two or more neumes prior to the modified note.
    • Comparative analysis of this neume shows that the third note is often divided into two, which would indicate that it is a long.
    • There were also ‘liquescent’ neumes - ornamental neumes that required special types of vocal delivery.
    • To illustrate the development from neumes to notes, we take the Offertory Illumina, from the 10th Sunday.
    • And yet, just how and where we moved from the neume to the square note has not been studied until now.
    1. 1.1 A sign indicating a neume.
      纽玛音符
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If two versions of the same song can be found, then the later manuscript can be used as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to help determine what the earlier neumes mean and how they can be interpreted.
      • This notation, common in some form or another to all early manuscripts, consisted of staffless ‘neumes ', signs that to a certain extent indicate the contour of the melodies but not the exact intervals.
      • The only strange-looking neumes are the slightly curved diagonal strokes, but these are not difficult.
      • Rhythmic letters and episemas can be attached to these elements, and will stay with the neume where it is dragged on the staff.
      • In the 11 th Century, the neums are placed on lines for better pitch accuracy.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French neume, from medieval Latin neu(p)ma, from Greek pneuma ‘breath’.

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