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The latter was given a multisectional form, typical for the works dating back to the first half of the seventeenth century, which evolved due to the modifications introduced to the composition of the ensemble, as well as textural and mensural contrasts.

(25.) In mensural notation, a brevis is a short, small syllable or note.

Only one portion of A Briefe Discourse is considered to be wholly Ravenscroft's--the middle section, where citations were limited and the content revolved around the author's perceived misuse of one aspect of the mensural notation system, that of perfect prolation.

Mensural discrimination between sympatric Peromyscus leucopus and P.

Mensural data were analysed with the Minitab 15 statistical software program.

These measurements were not mentioned by Dante but were extrapolated by Manetti and others from bits and pieces of mensural information about the dimensions of the Inferno contained in the poem.

Therefore, Mullally argues that although it was not originally written in mensural notation, music for the carole should be played in 6/8 time (83).

* mensural moisture ([u.sub.1]) [kg x [kg.sup.-1]],

The disjunct nature of the distribution of the Bolivian Punomys relative to those of its congeners in Peru, coupled with the mensural and morphological differences identified on this unique specimen are suggestive of specieslevel distinction given the same magnitude of difference among characters between P.

In Kam and related languages there are basically two types of verb classifiers: sortal and mensural. Both kinds are involved with event-phase counting and temporal measuring and hence mirror the function of their twins in the nominal realm.

Examples include sortal classifiers, e.g., "head" in 'ten head of cattle," mensural classifiers as in "two mugs of beer," and repeaters such as the Japanese hito-hako (literally, "box one-box").