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  • noun Plural form of breve.

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  • By Camas elevadas para espacios breves on November 6, 2009 at 9: 02 pm

    A Space Saving Murphy Bed for Your Pet 2009

  • From his Facebook profile, Sergio has five blogs: Galería Literaria; Químicamente Impuro; Breves no tan breves; Rafagas, parpadeos; Los cuentos de Lauría y Becerra; and his email address is sergiogvh(at)gmail(dot)com.

    From De Antología's Sergio Gaut Vel Hartman 2009

  • A fine example of a mixed setting is the motet Mater digna Dei, in which specific words, composed in breves, are given emphasis partly by fermatas on each syllable.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Nos topamos con algunas curiosas y vivaces “ensaladas”, en general breves y siempre interesantes y agudas, y que merecían ser estudiadas detenidamente como precedentes válidos de la gran estructuración que del género hizo Flecha el Viejo durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Poetas & editores profesionales hablarán sobre “recopilaciones breves”, colecciones de poemas en formato de libro con las que el poeta comienza a encontrar su audiencia.

    Uptown Arts Stroll Opening Reception « 2009

  • La urna virtual: cinco analistas de Francia, Chile, México, Cuba e Inglaterra nos revelan en breves textos sus "intenciones de voto".

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Andrew Sullivan - Dear President Bush, 2009

  • We noticed dissonances dissonances that sometimes involved every part and that lasted over several breves, such as E F G/D E F /C D E.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • From his Facebook profile, Sergio has five blogs: Galería Literaria; Químicamente Impuro; Breves no tan breves; Rafagas, parpadeos; Los cuentos de Lauría y Becerra; and his email address is sergiogvh(at)gmail(dot)com.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Nos encontramos con los breves versiones castellanas del famoso Canto de la Sibila Eritrea, actualizado, incluso dramáticamente, por Navidad en determinados centros litúrgicos.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

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