Square neumes - Square neumes

Japanese: 角形ネウマ - かくがたねうま
Square neumes - Square neumes

...The number of lines ranged from one to eighteen, but gradually four or five became the standard. In the 13th century, square neumes with four staff lines came into general use and spread throughout Europe, but the Germanic Gothic neumes continued to be used for a long time. Even today, the Roman Catholic Church uses square neumes with four staff lines for Gregorian chants.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "square neumes" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…線の数も1本から18本などというものも行われたが,徐々に4本ないし5本が標準とされるようになった。13世紀になると,4本譜線つき角形ネウマが一般的に用いられるようになり,ヨーロッパ各地に普及したが,ゲルマン系のゴシック・ネウマ(鋲形ネウマ)はその後も長く使用されていた。今日でもローマ・カトリック教会では,グレゴリオ聖歌集に4線譜つき角形ネウマを採用している。…

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