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Semibreve

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Noun

1. semibreve, whole note

a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Semibreve

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noun
music
a note, now the longest in common use, having a time value that may be divided by any power of 2 to give all other notes
. Usual US and Canadian name: whole note See also breve (sense 2)

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Semibreve

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noun
Chiefly British
whole note

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Semibreve

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n.
A whole note in music.

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