A longa, also known as a "Brasieroule Quatrinote" or a "quadruple whole note," is a musical note twice as long as a breve, four times as long as a semibreve/whole note, that appears in early music. It is equal to sixteen quarter notes, or four measures in common time. It is no longer used in modern music notation (due largely to the advent of common time), although the sign for the equivalent rest is sometimes used to mark multi-measure rests.
Rare, but conceivable, is the concept of a double-longa, or "octuple whole note," which is twice as long as a longa (eight whole notes or 32 quarter-notes), and has the same body of a longa but no stem.
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