Definition of "neumatic" [neumatic]

• Written using neumes (adjective)

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• "The so-called neumatic notation (from meuma, a nod), which probably in the eighth century found its way from the Orient into the Latin Church, where it suffered many modifications, had mainly a rhythmical purpose, and was intended to serve only in a general way a diastematic end, i.e. an indication of the intervals of the melody."
• "This he published (Brussels, 1851), adding to it his own key to the neumatic notation, and a brief historical and critical account of the document."
• "Alleluias, and the Tracts of the whole year, in the ancient neumatic notation (a sort of musical stenography), together with the so-called"