breve
noun/briːv/
/briːv/
(music)- a note that lasts as long as eight crotchets / quarter notes and that is rarely used in modern musicWord OriginMiddle English: variant of brief. In the musical sense, the term was originally used in a series where a long was of greater time value than a breve.
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