mensural notation: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	measured music

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Music notation: time-value relationships between breve and long

Music notation: musical notes and their corresponding rests.

Music notation: mensural notation, perfect mensural notation (three breves) and imperfect mensural notation (two breves).

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