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QUADRATE

Text: (or B quadratum). The sign b, used originally to raise B rotundum b, one semitone. Hence arose its general use for the raising of all flattened notes, as exemplified in its modern form of a natural sign.

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Source: A Dictionary of Musical Terms , Stainer, John; Barrett, W.A., Novello, Ewer and Co., London, pre-1900 ,

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