8-453: (Redirected from Minims ) Minim may refer to: Minim, British English for a half note (which usually gets two beats) MINIM (band) , an industrial rock band from Spain Minim (unit) , a small amount of fluid, essentially a standardized drop Order of Minims , a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula Franciscan Minims of
16-504: A global satellite internet, telephony and fax network operated by Inmarsat Minim, French for "little one", was used at the University of Notre Dame from the 1840s to the 1920s to describe students in their grade school department See also [ edit ] Minimum Minimi (disambiguation) Minime (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
24-487: Is a 19th-century loan translation of German halbe Note . The Catalan, French, and Spanish names ( blanca , blanche , meaning "white") derive from the fact that the minima was the shortest unfilled note in mensural white notation, which is true of the modern form as well. The form in the earlier black notation resembles the modern quarter note (crotchet). The Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean names mean "half", and in Greek,
32-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Half note In music , a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet). It was given its Latin name ( minima , meaning "least or smallest") because it was the shortest of
40-608: The Perpetual Help of Mary Minim (palaeography) , a short vertical stroke used in handwriting Minim, a Hebrew word denoting "sectarians" (e.g. Sadducees, Nazoraeans, etc.); see Heresy in Judaism Minim Inc. , An American networking company. Minim, Martap , a village in Cameroon Minim (or nanitic), describes the first (and smallest) workers produced in many ant colonies Mini-M, also known as Inmarsat-M ,
48-421: The five note values used in early medieval music notation . Half notes are notated with a hollow oval notehead like a whole note and straight note stem with no flags like a quarter note (see Figure 1). The half rest (or minim rest ) denotes a silence of the same duration. Half rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles sitting on top of the middle line of the musical staff , although in polyphonic music
56-399: The rest may need to be moved to a different line or even a ledger line . As with all notes with stems, half notes are drawn with upward stems on the right when they are below the middle line of the staff and downward stems on the left when they are on or above the middle line. In vocal music, notes on the middle line have a downward stem instead of an upward stem. The American term half note
64-417: The title Minim . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minim&oldid=1258889039 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2022 Short description
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