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June Hughes writes:
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| A breve is a whole note.
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| I beg to differ. A breve is two whole notes.
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| http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdiction...Wholenote.html
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| at least it is in Italy and the UK.
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| I have just checked your site. Your are right. Apols. It figures as
| in the USA a quarter note is a crotchet. Senior moment

Well, quite a few of us are getting old and crotchety. Amusingly
enough, one of the examples in the OED for the first meaning of
the word 'breve' is "He was tempted to revoke his breves." You
have just done so :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.