1/8/2024 0 Comments Nota musical semi fusa![]() ![]() The Quaver, originally called Chroma or Fusa, sometimes Unca (a hook), was probably invented some time during the 15th century, for Morley (1597) says that 'there were within these 200 years' (and therefore in 1400) 'but four (notes) known or used of the musicians, those were the Long, Breve, Semibreve, and Minim' and Thomas de Walsingham, in a MS. ![]() The fact appears to be that the invention of the shorter notes followed the demand created by the general progress of music, a demand which may fairly be supposed to have reached its limit in the quarter-demisemiquaver, or 1 / 16 of a quaver, occasionally met with in modern music. It is however certain that the longer notes were in use nearly 300 years earlier, in the time of Franco of Cologne, and it seems equally clear that the introduction of the shorter kinds is of later date than the time of De Muris. Muris) to a work entitled 'L'antica Musica ridotta alia moderna Prattica,' by Vicentino (1555), in which it is explicitly stated that De Muris invented all the notes, from the Large to the Semiquaver. The idea of expressing the values of notes by diversity of form has been ascribed by certain writers to De Muris (about 1340), but this is undoubtedly an error, the origin of which is traced by both Hawkins (Hist. ![]() A note which is half the length of a crotchet, and therefore the eighth part of a semibreve hence the German name, which signifies, 'eighth-note.' It is written thus, its Rest being represented by. ![]()
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