I ~ The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century THE CONCEPT OF the musical measure, time signatures, and bar
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The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century
THE CONCEPT OF the musical measure, time signatures, and bar lines evolved gradually from sixteenth-century mensural notation. Some symbols of modern notation are derived from the mensural system, though we may be unaware of their originai significance. Some new symbols were accepted into seventeenthcentury notation, but most of those in use were familiar to musicians for over a century. The semicircle C and its diminution