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Arsis vs Anacrusis - What's the difference?

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In music|lang=en terms the difference between arsis and anacrusis

is that arsis is (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 while anacrusis is (music) an unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.

As nouns the difference between arsis and anacrusis

is that arsis is the stronger part of a musical measure or a metrical foot while anacrusis is (prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.

arsis

English

(Arsis)

Noun

(arses)
  • Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot

    • Anagrams

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    anacrusis

    English

    (wikipedia anacrusis)

    Noun

    (anacruses)
  • (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 :
    • Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis .

    Related terms

    * crusis