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Synonyms for mensuration

the act or process of ascertaining dimensions, quantity, or capacity

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Since the tenor would have been written out only once in the original, the singers had to interpret the notation each time in a different mensuration before giving voice to the tenor, a task Wright has already accomplished for us in the edition.
The setting has three voices with telescoped text throughout, organized in three sections, each with a different mensuration. The composer takes the opportunity to write in a highly syncopated manner, which makes for difficult performance.
Chapter 1, 'The Representation and Interpretation of Mensuration Signs', attempts a systematic and historical 'overview of mensurations signs as found in theoretical sources of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries' (p.
Nearly all mensuration changes are achievable via equivalent minims, and the score format clarifies potentially problematic situations--such as Leonel Power's (d.
For each phrase category, besides a discussion of its characteristics and the statistics of the text underlay, Boone provides carefully commented examples in the different mensurations, putting particular emphasis upon those cases where the scribal placement of the syllables is relatively ambiguous.
Avec ses mensurations de reve, elle a fait naitre une carriere dans le mannequinat !
The editorial criteria listed in the introduction certainly are appropriate: citation of original clefs for each part; retention of the original mensurations, note values, continuo figures, and accidentals (adapted to the modern practice of being valid for an entire bar); and placement of editorial accidentals above the notes.
Avec ses mensurations de reve, elle a fait naEtre une carriere dans le mannequinat !
A model, usually the tenor of a polyphonic song, is divided into units of roughly equal length, each of which is restated under several mensurations in descending order of magnitude.
The mensurations he discussed were ??, [Phi], ??3 and 3.
Each Mass opens with the expected incipits showing clef, mensuration, key signature, initial rests, and first note as given in the principal source, after which the range of each voice part is helpfully indicated.