Crossword-Solution: NEUMES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEUMES | anagram | MUNSEE |
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| Medieval music signs | 1 answer |
| Medieval church-music signs | 2 answers |
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Walk furtively (up to someone)
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
DLEIS
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with NEUMES (5)
Their notation by means of symbols copied from the primitive _neumes_ vastly facilitated the work of engraving.
This system of neumes was in some ways a retrogression from the Greek letter system, for the neumes indicated neither definite pitches nor definite tone-lengths.
Examples of several neumes are given merely in order to give the beginner a general idea of their appearance.
The development of the neumes into notes of various shapes indicating relative time values and the division of the staff into measures with a definite measure signature at the beginning are natural developments of the earlier primitive idea.
Qui tol-lis pec-ca-ta.] The most curious notation of which we have a record was that of the neumæ, or neumes, which were employed by the ecclesiastical writers mostly from about the sixth century to the twelfth.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–1996).