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In music, a double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note [1] [2] lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation. [2] The next longest notated note is the longa, which is double the length of the breve.
Large (Latin: Maxima) / Octuple whole note [3] Long / Quadruple whole note [3] Breve / Double whole note: Semibreve / Whole note: Minim / Half note: Crotchet / Quarter note [4] [5] Quaver / Eighth note For notes of this length and shorter, the note has the same number of flags (or hooks) as the rest has branches. Semiquaver / Sixteenth note
In a whole note, the notehead, shaped differently than shorter notes, is the only component of the note. Shorter note values attach a stem to the notehead, and possibly beams or flags. The longer double whole note can be written with vertical lines surrounding it, two attached noteheads, or a rectangular notehead. [1]
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The duration (note length or note value) is indicated by the form of the note-head or with the addition of a note-stem plus beams or flags. A stemless hollow oval is a whole note or semibreve, a hollow rectangle or stemless hollow oval with one or two vertical lines on both sides is a double whole note or breve.
Note Rest American name British name Relative value Dotted value Double dotted value Triple dotted value; large, duplex longa, or maxima [1] [2] (occasionally octuple note, [3] octuple whole note, [4] or octuple entire musical note) [5]
A longa in white-mensural notation. A longa rest (modern form) worth two breves. A longa (pl. longae, or sometimes longe), long, quadruple note (Am.), or quadruple whole note is a musical note that could be either twice or three times as long as a breve (Am.: double whole note, or double note), four or six times as long as a semibreve (Am.: whole note), that appears in early music.
The term is Italian for "on the breve", originally meaning that the beat was counted on the breve (double whole note). [2] Alla breve is a "simple-duple meter with a half-note pulse". [3] The note denomination that represents one beat is the minim or half-note. There are two of these per bar, so that the time signature 2