arsis
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
arsis (countable and uncountable, plural arses)
- (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
- (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.
- 1830, Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres:
- it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement
- (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.[1]
- The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
the stronger part of a measure or foot
References edit
- ^ 1852, John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopædia of Music
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
arsis m (plural arsis)
Further reading edit
- “arsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Participle edit
arsīs
References edit
- “arsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arsis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)