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Ironically, breve is derived from the Latin brevis, meaning 'short,' and is the British name for what Americans would call a double whole note, i.e., one that spans eight beats, or two whole measures in 4/4 time.

View its appearance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value.

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