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What is the correct term for the accentuated syllable in a multisyllable word?
Example:
(the name Theodora) thee-oh-DOHR-uh = the DOHR syllable?
Could one refer to it as the "accentuate" or is there another name for it?
Surely there must be something simpler than "accentuated syllable."
Thanks.
- = A u g u s t = -
"Architecture is frozen music." -Goethe
Red, Orange, Blue (1961)
Mark Rothko
Example:
(the name Theodora) thee-oh-DOHR-uh = the DOHR syllable?
Could one refer to it as the "accentuate" or is there another name for it?
Surely there must be something simpler than "accentuated syllable."
Thanks.
"Architecture is frozen music." -Goethe
Red, Orange, Blue (1961)
Mark Rothko
This message was edited 3/25/2008, 10:13 PM
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As far as I know the stressed syllable is referred to as the tonic syllable, and the two preceding as the pretonic and propretonic respectively.
In other words DOHR should be the tonic syllable since it's stressed.
In other words DOHR should be the tonic syllable since it's stressed.
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Thank you for clarifying that. In music the tonic is the home (or "I") chord.
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