Anabasis (music)

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The anabasis (. Greek άναβαίνω: ascent , of άνά: up and βάσις: transition ) or ascensus (lat .: ascend, ascend ) is a purely musical figure and describes an upward movement in a musical line.

Unlike many other musical figures, she is not a rhetorical-musical figure, i. H. a figure that has its origins in the rhetorical and literary field, but a purely musical one. As a result, it is not a means of “tone painting”, just as the rhetorical figures are a means of “painting” words, but a means of transferring thoughts given in a text or piece of text into the music, i.e. a creative one Means of composition.

The anabasis clarifies words or sentences that by themselves already have an upwardly ambitious character, such as joy, jubilation or the resurrection. It illustrates direct actions of ascending character and words of admiration intended to be expressed by the anabasis , such as: B. "King" or "Christ".

The counterpart to the anabasis is the katabasis , which describes the descending image.

Kircher : " Anabasis or Ascensio is a musical period through which we express something outstanding, something in the process of ascending or something sublime, such as: Ascendens Christ in altum" (The ascension of Christ into heaven)

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