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Mensuration
Mensuration meaning
The act or process of measuring; measurement. | The study of measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure the areas, volumes and different parameters of geometric figures. | A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the modern use of time signatures; The use of mensural notation.
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About this sound Play ( help · info ) The movement consists of a three-out-of-one mensuration canon.
A circle used as a mensuration sign indicated tempus perfectum (a circle being a symbol of completeness), while an incomplete circle, resembling a letter C, indicated tempus imperfectum.
Early music usage Mensural time signatures In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period in which mensural notation was used, four basic mensuration signs determined the proportion between the two main units of rhythm.
Mensuration is a particular problem in the Cantigas, and most attempts at determining meaningful rhythmic schemes have tended, with some exceptions, to be unsatisfactory.
The introduction of these led to a new issue, the need for very accurate three dimensional target coordinates – the mensuration process.
Unlike modern notation, the duration ratios between these different values was not always 2:1; it could be either 2:1 or 3:1, and that is what, amongst other things, these mensuration signs indicated.