单词 | per arsin et thesin |
释义 | per arsin et thesinadv. 1. Music. Describing the imitation of a theme, e.g. the subject of a canon or fugue, by inversion (inversion n. 6a). In later use also: describing the imitation of a theme with strong beats becoming weak and vice versa. ΚΠ 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke ii. 114 If..you make a Canon per arsin & thesin, without anie discorde in binding maner in it. 1631 E. Bevin Briefe Instr. Art of Musicke 18 You haue two parts in one per Arsin & Thesin, by contrary motions. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 131 Sometimes the Point is Inverted, or moves per Arsin and Thesin (as they phrase it). 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Arsis and Thesis, a Phrase in musical Composition, where a point being inverted, is said to move per Arsin et Thesin. 1819 T. Busby Gen. Hist. Music I. xviii. 438 Others sung per arsin et thesin. 1879 F. A. G. Ouseley in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 95/1 A fugue ‘per arsin et thesin’ is the same thing as a fugue ‘by inversion.’ 1972 Music & Lett. 53 93 The imitation of a simple anacrusis per arsin et thesin complicates the simple dance measure. 2006 C. Fontijn Desperate Meas. v. 208 Strong and weak beats are exchanged, per arsin et thesin. ΚΠ 1761 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony (ed. 2) 24 The following Iambicks move per Arsin et Thesin, and are measured by the Hand, first up and then down, because they begin with a short Quantity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1597 |
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