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单词 breve
释义
breve
noun[C]
uk
/briːv/us
/briːv/

brevenoun[C](MUSIC)

musicUKspecialized
amusicalnotewith atimevalueequalto twosemibreves:
二全音符
Thestringpartsarefullof breves andsemibreves.
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  • Youknowthatrepeatedbaritonebreve which justoozesdisapproval, likeblowingaraspberry.
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brevenoun[C](PRONUNCIATION)

phonetics,languagespecialized
asymbol(˘) written orprintedabove avowelto show that it ispronouncedwith ashortsound:
The breveindicatesashortvowel, asopposedto the macron, whichindicateslongvowels.
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macronspecialized
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  • Thosesingleacutes(like the breves) whichfunctionaslengthdiacriticsareclearlypositionedabove thevowel.
  • As early as 1821, at least one of themissionarieswas using macrons and breves in makinghandwrittentranscriptionsof Hawaiianvowels.
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  • lenis
  • macron
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  • schwa
  • semivowel
  • sibilance
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(Definition ofbrevefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
breve
noun[C]
musicUKspecialized
uk
/briːv/us
/briːv/
amusicalnotewith atimevalueequalto twosemibreves
二全音符

Examplesofbreve

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This destroys an otherwise fascinating proportion in the motet in its ideal complete shape, with a length of 171 breves.
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The only point at which this relatively quick motion slows is at the talea's midpoint, which is spanned by abreve-long ligature.
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The initial consonance is developed, then 'saturated' by the figures chosen and sung to an unfolding pattern of longs and breves.
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The motet has a length of 150 breves.
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Its music begins with a rest of three breves as a very downto-earth illustration of the following je ne chant.
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Therefore, abreveadjoined to a long does not automatically cause its imperfection.
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The contrafact shows how close these little motets were to the secular repertoire (it is only twenty breves long).
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If both voices are taken into account, the total is, again, 72 (this time, breves).
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Thebrevefollowing this long does not imperfect the long but is simply a guidepost between the two possible referents of the same figure.
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The notation of this piece - like many others in this repertory - uses rhomboid breves.
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The new music is twelve perfect longs in length, thirty-six breves.
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Other contentious points depend on whether a rest between phrases should be a perfect long or abreve.
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In diminution the perfect longs are replaced by perfect breves, preceded by a perfect semibreve.
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The pairs of crossedbreverests (pausas transfixis) retain their normal value - thus each pair is equal, in modern transcription, to a dotted semibreve rest.
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