neuman.
/ˈnjuːmə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)umə/ Music.
1. = neume n. 1.
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society > faith > worship > church music > plainchant > [noun] > group of notes
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant > part of plainchant
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1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 345 Neuma..signifies an aggregation of as many sounds as may be uttered in one single respiration.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 172 The Neuma, or recapitulation of a chant at the end of an anthem.
1848 R. Müller tr. R. G. Kiesewetter Hist. Mus. Western Europe 281 In choral chants by Neuma is understood a melodious phrase at the end of verse.
1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 452/1 Neuma, A phrase of melody used by medieval theorists to illustrate the characteristics and range of a mode.
1978 Early Music 6 189/1 The final verse..is sung to a version of the third melody, rounded off with the neuma or melisma conventionally associated with mode 4.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIII. 123/2 The neumae of model antiphons... The neumae of responsories... The neumae of sequences.
2. = neume n. 2. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > character in notation > note > plain-song notes
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1848 R. Müller tr. R. G. Kiesewetter Hist. Mus. Western Europe 380 The Neumata, in which the oldest Chant-books of the Latin Church now extant are noted, consist of points, little hooks, strokes, and flourishes, in different shapes and directions.
1879 F. L. Ritter Hist. Mus. (1880) 33 The oldest neumæ manuscripts do not reach farther back than the end of the 8th century.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 468/1 The Neumæ did..shew at a glance the general conformation of the Melody they were supposed to illustrate.
1886 W. S. Rockstro Gen. Hist. Mus. 31 Every Neuma placed upon the red line was understood to represent the note F.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) Neuma, a term used in the Middle Ages..with a notational meaning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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