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Meanings of semibreve in English

Portuguese
semibreve
Catalan
rodona
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A musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)

        semibreve
        Usage of semibreve in English
        1
        A smiling Legrand toys with the thought for a semibreve longer, then breaks the magic.
        Reuters
        2
        How well placed they were, those semibreves!
        A Christmas Garland
        3
        Item, the goodly Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
        4
        Minims and quavers hovered, sinking at the end of each passage to deep semibreves before reascending and moving on.
        Between the Woods and the Water
        5
        The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, "Peace, be still," after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas.
        The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
        Translations for semibreve
        Portuguese
        semibreve
        Catalan
        rodona
        Semibreve through the time