Verso de arte mayor

Arte mayor ( Spanish for "higher art") generally refers to any verse with nine or more syllables in the metric of Spanish poetry . What is meant, however, is almost always the verso de arte mayor ("verse of higher art"), a multifaceted verse that emerged from the 14th century. Its interpretation is controversial. Originally it was - in contrast to the shorter verso de arte menor - a non-syllable long verse of eight to 16 syllables, which developed into a regular twelve-syllable verse with four accents and a middle caesura . The basic metric scheme is:

◡ — ◡◡ — ◡ ‖ ◡ — ◡◡ — ◡

The single half-verse of the form ◡ — ◡◡ — ◡ (in the terminology of ancient metrics an amphibrachian dipody ) is called pie de arte mayor ("(verse) foot of higher art") and regularly bears the main accent on the second and one Secondary accent on the first lift.

It experienced its heyday in the 15th century through Juan de Menas didactic - allegorical verse epic Laberinto de Fortuna (1444), whose coplas , the so-called Coplas de arte mayor or Octavas de Juan de Mena , each consisting of eight arte mayor verses in pass the rhyme schemes abba acca , abba acac or abab bccb .

Example from Juan de Menas Laberinto de Fortuna :

Al mu̱y prepote̱nte don Jua̱n el segu̱ndo
aque̱l con quien Jú̱piter tu̱vo tal ze̱lo
que ta̱nta de pa̱rte le fi̱zo del mu̱ndo
quanta̱ a sí me̱smo se fi̱zo del çie̱lo,
al gra̱n rey de Espa̱é̱s, al Çovear n Espa̱ña;
al que̱ con Fortu̱na es bie̱n fortuna̱do,
aque̱l en quien ca̱ben virtu̱d e reina̱do;
a é̱l, la rodi̱lla finca̱da por sue̱lo.

literature

• Rudolf Baehr : Spanish verse theory on a historical basis. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1962, pp. 125-136.
• DC Clarke: Arte mayor. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , p. 86 ( limited previewhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuKiC6IeFR2UC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA86~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3Deineschr%C3%A4nkte%20Vorschau~PUR%3D in Google Book Search).
• Martin J. Duffell: Modern metrical theory and the verso de arte mayor. London, 1999. ISBN 0-904188-41-8 .
• Julio Saavedra Molina: El verso de arte mayor. Santiago de Chile 1946.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 48.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ V. 1–8 cit . From es.wikisource.org , accessed on April 22, 2013.