Definition of "semibreve" [sem•i•breve]

• Chiefly British A whole note in music. (noun)

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• "Consecutives on successive semibreve beats are broken by the intervention of a minim if it is a harmony note, but not if it is a passing discord."
• "Coldplay won my heart from the first semibreve.....even when Kashata slammed them to god kows where...needless to say she is now totally reformed."
• "'I am the breve, Carlo here is the semibreve, he is the crotchet, he is the quaver, and that lad in the sea is a semiquaver, and little Piero here is a demi-semiquaver."