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10-03-2011, 07:00 PM
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 17th Century Notation So, I'm checking out this music from Monteverdi and there are these weird notes--at least I think they are notes--that look like the Roman numeral "II" only sideways. I guess they are equal to two whole notes since a dotted one appears to be equal to three whole notes. Is that correct? Are these just notes? They don't indicate chords in anyway do they? Not like figured bass notation or anything like that are they? They don't quite look like today's double whole note. Nothing round about them. I just took another look and there are these time signatures that just have one number 3. And it appears that three of the II's make up a bar. But then it says a dotted II equals a quarter note! Maybe I'll try and post a screen shot. Update: I found a more modern version. Yeah, they are just double whole notes. Just so weird to use three double whole notes for what is just a bar of 6/4. Tempo isn't super slow or anything. But I guess a man has his reasons. Thanks in advance.
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10-09-2011, 07:48 AM
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#3
11-20-2011, 01:24 PM
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| The double whole notes are called "breve"s.
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12-29-2011, 10:58 PM
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| What is the use of these breve?
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01-07-2012, 01:40 AM
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| Quote:
 Otherwise, it is not uncommon to see it in modern notation as the last note of a tune; rather than a whole note with a fermata.
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