Anacrusis vs Anacusis - What's the difference?
anacrusis | anacusis |
(prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.
(music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.
* 1989 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
As nouns the difference between anacrusis and anacusis
is that anacrusis is (prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse while anacusis is (medicine) total deafness.anacrusis
English
(wikipedia anacrusis)Noun
(anacruses)- Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis .