Crossword-Solution: NEUME
We have 12 clues for the answer “NEUME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Church-music symbol | 1 answer |
| Gregorian chant note | 1 answer |
| Gregorian-chant symbol | 1 answer |
| MUSIC character, ancient | 1 answer |
| Medieval musical notation | 1 answer |
| Musical notational sign | 1 answer |
| Old musical staff notation | 1 answer |
| Old musical symbol | 1 answer |
| Plainsong notational symbol | 1 answer |
| Sign used in early music. | 1 answer |
| Symbol in Gregorian chant notation | 1 answer |
| System of symbols in medieval music. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEEZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with NEUME (5)
From this arose our F and C clefs, which preceded the G clef by some centuries."[37] [Footnote 37: Elson--Music Dictionary, article, "Notation."] Another writer[38] gives a somewhat different explanation, stating that the staff system with the use of clefs came about through writing a letter (C or F) in the margin of the manuscript and drawing a line from this letter to the neume which was to represent the tone for which this particular letter stood.
Neume notation was used mostly in connection with the "plain-song melodies" of the Church, and since the words of these chants were sung as they would be pronounced in reading, the deficiency of the neume system in not expressing definite duration values was not felt.
Here then we observe the greatest weakness of the neume system--its lack of uniformity and its consequent inability accurately to express musical ideas for universal interpretation.
Just how the transition from _neume_ to _staff_ notation was made no one knows: it was not done in a day nor in a year but was the result of a gradual process of evolution and improvement.
The clefs at the beginning of the staffs are of course simply altered forms of the letters F, C, and G, which were written at first by Guido and others to make the old neume notation more definite.
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1948–2019).