Associations to the word «Arsis»

Wiktionary

ARSIS, noun. Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
ARSIS, noun. The stronger part of a musical measure or a metrical foot.
ARSIS, noun. (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.

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