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Re: Polysemy of "long"

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 6:09
Italian "lungo" is used in some but perhaps not most duration idioms.
Medieval Latin used "longa" for a particular note duration (== 4 whole
notes, if I understand correctly. Whole notes seemed to be much shorter in
the middle ages than now.)