Sentence examples for semibreve from inspiring English sources

The time-value relationships between breve and long similarly applied to the other pairs of notes: maxima and long (longa); breve and semibreve (semibrevis); and semibreve and minim (minima).

For example, the letter states that when the child said that he didn't know the British system of naming musical notes, he was told by the production staff member the names of four specific notes that "he needed to know," including semibreve for whole note, crotchet for quarter note and quaver for eighth note.

Just when you think you've safely arrived at the end of the first part of the movement in a stable key, a steamroller-like (to mix various mechanical metaphors) semibreve stops the music in its tracks, before Haydn wrenches the music back to where it's supposed to be.

On a simple level, the poems in John F Deane's Semibreve (Carcanet) are elegies for the past and specifically for a lost brother.