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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Arial" size="3">In 37 years of teaching basic theory, I have never used such terminology. We already have, in music and poetry, a term to designate what leads up to an accent: anacrusis. Logically, the accent is the "crusis" and what comes after is a "metacrusis".</font><BR><font face="Arial" size="3"></font> <BR><font face="Arial" size="3">Therefore, a so-called "masculine" cadence is a crusic cadence, and a so-called "feminine" cadence is a metacrusic cadence. That's the terminology I have always used - logical and non-sexist.</font><br><br><em><font face="Arial">Paul Cadrin</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">Musicologue sans frontières</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">2-1475, avenue Desjardins</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">Montréal (Québec) Canada</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">H1V 2G5</font></em><br><br> <BR><div>> From: Jennifer.Bain@Dal.Ca<br>> To: dn16@txstate.edu; smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:56:23 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Gender Terminology in Music Theory<br>> <br>> So to refer to a cadence that ends on a strong metric position as<br>> masculine and one that ends on a weak metric position as feminine is not<br>> sexist...? Didn't we sort this out in 1991?<br>> <br>> Jennifer<br>> <br>> <br>> Jennifer Bain, Ph.D.<br>> Chair, Dept. of Music<br>> <br>> bainj@dal.ca<br>> 902-494-1142<br>> <br>> Dalhousie University<br>> 6101 University Avenue<br>> Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On 14-04-29 11:49 AM, "Ninov, Dimitar N" <dn16@txstate.edu> wrote:<br>> <br>> >Dear Colleagues,<br>> ><br>> >Also, one must not forget the traditional terms "masculine cadence" and<br>> >"feminine cadence" as referred to the metric position of the final tonic.<br>> >This, of course, is not sexist language, although I do not rule out some<br>> >future "original contribution" referring to a third gender cadence, which<br>> >is neither masculine, nor feminine (ha-ha).<br>> ><br>> >Best regards,<br>> ><br>> >Dimitar<br>> ><br>> >Dr. Dimitar Ninov, Lecturer<br>> >School of Music<br>> >Texas State University<br>> >601 University Drive<br>> >San Marcos, Texas 78666<br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >Smt-talk mailing list<br>> >Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>> >http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheo<br>> >ry.org<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Smt-talk mailing list<br>> Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>> http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div> </div></body>
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