TIME TABLE. A Table denoting the forms and proportionate duration of all the notes used in measured Music.
The earliest known indication of a Time Table is to be found in the well-known work on Cantus mensurabilis, written by Franco of Cologne about the middle of the 11th century. Franco mentions only four kinds of notes, the Large (or Double Long), the Long, the Breve, and the Semibreve. Franchinus Gafurius, in his ‘Practica musicæ,
’ first printed at Milan in 1496,...