Neume (noun)
new-m
(musical) A note or group of notes to be sung to a single syllable.
Late Middle English: from Old French neume, from medieval Latin neu(p)ma, from Greek pneuma ‘breath’.
Example sentences
“You must play the neume before the modified note.”

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