arsis
see also: Arsis
Noun

arsis

  1. (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
  2. (poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
  3. (music) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
  4. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
Translations
  • French: arsis
  • Portuguese: arse, ársis

Arsis
Noun

arsis (plural arses)

  1. Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot



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