semibreve

How To Use semibreve In A Sentence

• The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
• For the first time the minim is now fully accepted as a note-value in its own right rather than as a special kind of semibreve.
• More startling, his manic-depressive nature is expressed by sudden changes of tempo, juxtaposing passages in semiquavers with slow-moving minims and semibreves.
• The relationship between the semibreve and the minim is exactly the same as that accorded to the breve and semibreve.
• For example, the addition of a stem carries no essential meaning that requires a minim to last half as long as a semibreve, but convention dictates it.
• Some simply take the themes in order to construct fantasy variations; others write in semibreves and minims to make the motifs for chorale preludes.
• The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
• The cantus firmus is sounded in semibreves in the middle of the three voices.
• It's pretty unusual to find hemidemisemiquavers in pieces of music, because most of the time they're too short to be significant - just 1/64th of a semibreve.