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Meaning of "prolation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROLATION

prəʊˈleɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROLATION

noun
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preposition
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Prolation is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PROLATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prolation

Prolation is a term used in the theory of the mensural notation of medieval and Renaissance music to describe its rhythmic structure on a small scale. The term is derived from the Latin prolatio, first used by Philippe de Vitry in describing Ars Nova, a musical style that came about in 14th-century France. Prolation, together with tempus, corresponds roughly to the concept of time signature in modern music. Prolation describes whether a semibreve is equal in length to two minims or three minims. Early medieval music was often structured in subdivisions of three, while the note values in modern music are unambiguously subdivided into two parts, meaning that only minor prolation has survived in our time signature system. We now indicate subdivisions of three by modifying note values with dots or triplets. The history of written medieval music shows a gradual shift from major to minor prolation being common. The equivalent term in the Italian notation of the fourteenth century is "divisio", which covers both tempus and prolation. Italian divisiones, first described by Marchetto da Padova, can also allow four minims within a semibreve.

Definition of prolation in the English dictionary

The definition of prolation in the dictionary is utterance; the action of prolating. Other definition of prolation is the rhythmic structure of early music.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PROLATION

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prolación
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Prolasi
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Prolation
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Prolasi
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उद्रेक
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLATION»

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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
... first in perfect mode and time of the greater [perfect and imperfect always apply to major mode and tempus, greater and lesser to minor mode and prolation], the second way in imperfect mode and time of the greater, third in perfect mode and ...
Anna Maria Busse Berger, 2005
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Ars Cantus Mensurabilis Mensurata Per Modos Iuris
This is proven by the philosopher in the first book of De caelo: all perfection dwells in trinity.30 Third Conclusion That there are five parts of prolation: maxima, longa, brevis, semibrevis, and minima. This is proven in natural things: a maximum ...
C. Matthew Balensuela, 1994
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The Berkeley Manuscript: University of California Music ...
is contrary to the common custom of singers, who place the semibreves as varied according to the prolation, so that if a black semibrevis should be worth three minimae , a red one will be worth two equal in value with the black ones. And I say ...
Oliver B. Ellsworth, 1984
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Musica Franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D'Accone
Just as there is disagreement over the proper relationship between the breve and semibreve, there are also divergent opinions about the prolation, or the minim-to- semibreve relationship. As seen previously in Examples 3 and 4, each minim ...
Frank A. D'Accone, Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, 1996
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Music History Super Review
However, a way had to be found out of this difficulty; and they found it by means of a system which they called prolation. They said : The circle O is perfect like the Holy Trinity. It shall represent 3 beats (perfect time). Half the circle C is imperfect ...
Charles V. Stanford Cecil Forsyth Research & Education Association
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Theoretical-practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
Some greater amount of light shines through relative to prolation, with which they intended to fix not only the relan'onship of the brevis with the semibrevis but also that of the semibrevis with the minima. It was of four types: I. Major perfect ...
Francesco Galeazzi, 2012
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Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Fugue, form, and style
It was the combination of new words with those of the mass; the use of differing Time and Prolation;16 and the canons. In the first and most solemn mass, one of the parts (usually the soprano) constantly sings the notes and words of the ...
Ian Bent, 1994
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A plain and easy introduction to practical music ...: ...
It followeth, to set downe the Prolation in the times perfect and vnper- fect : Prolation perfect in the time perfect, is thus : JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJJJJJJJ Great Moode impersect. Small Moode impersect, time and pro- © O lation ...
Thomas Morley, 1771
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Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet
Figure 1.2. Anonymous, Quatuorprincipalia. The four divisions ofthe breve: (1) imperfect time, minor prolation: ; (2) Perfect time, minor prolation: ; (3) imperfect time, major prolation: ; (4) perfect time, major prolation: has a different mensuration, ...
Robert Michael Nosow, 2012
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Mediaeval music
Vitracio, who died 1360, with the signs 9 and G for the Greater and Lesser Prolation respectively. The Rest or Pause for the Semibreve was T, for the Minim . _-_. In Greater Prolation Q or G, a Semibreve = 3 Minims » Lesser n O or r n = 2 n The ...
R.C. Hope

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLATION»

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Cellist Alban Gerhardt caps a varied week in solid Shostakovich with …
It consists essentially of a descending A Minor scale in prolation canon, a centuries-old technique that has different parts play the same theme ... «The Oregonian, Apr 14»
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Maurizio Pollini: ice-man of the ivories
Think of the really complex pieces in the history of music – Bach's Art of Fugue, the Prolation Mass by Ockeghem (a 15th-century Flemish ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 10»
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