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arsis| In music, an alternative term, borrowed from Greek poetry, for upbeat. It is the opposite of thesis (Greek ‘lowering’) or downbeat. In German usage, however, ‘arsis’ and ‘thesis’ have opposite meanings to the original Greek and English words. |
arsis| In English and Latin verse, that part of a poetical foot (see metre) on which the stress of the voice falls. The rest of the foot is called the thesis (Greek ‘setting down’). |
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