<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt">In French versification theory ca. 1500, the end of a line is either feminine or masculine depending on whether the second last syllable or the last syllable is accented. In French, a grammatically masculine word might or might not refer to something that is semantically gendered masculine and a grammatically feminine word might or might not refer to something that is semantically gendered as feminine. <div><br></div><div>In aristocratic chansons of the time, a cadence at the end of both kinds of line generally proceeds from a weaker to a stronger part of the measure . However, often in songs that are idiomatically most similar to subsequent chansons populaires (e.g., Faisons bonne chere), a line with a feminine ending proceeds from a stronger to a weaker part of the musical
metre. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know whether, and if so, how and when, the phonological/prosodic terms were adopted to deal with musical metre and phrase structure?<div><br></div><div>Jay Rahn, York University <div id="yiv9796650226"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div id="yiv9796650226yui_3_13_0_7_1398827028541_19"><span></span></div><div class="yiv9796650226yahoo_quoted" id="yiv9796650226yui_3_13_0_7_1398827028541_21" style="display: block;"> <div class="yiv9796650226yui_3_13_0_1_1398827028541_9880" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div class="yiv9796650226yui_3_13_0_1_1398827028541_9881" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
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#yiv9796650226 </style><div><div dir="ltr">Like "sexist," the attributions "masculine" and "feminine" are ascriptive, not descriptive. Adjectives have no direct prescriptive power in reality, despite their undeniable if merely occasional affective influence; <i style="font-size:12pt;">that </i><span style="font-size:12pt;">matter was sorted out in 1324 by William of Ockham. Today, 1991 is every bit as much ancient history as 1324.</span><div><br clear="none"></div><div>MW Morse</div><div>z. Zeit freier Kunstler<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9796650226yqt1466817952" id="yiv9796650226yqtfd88397"><div>> From: Jennifer.Bain@Dal.Ca<br clear="none">> So to refer to a cadence that ends on a strong metric position as<br clear="none">> masculine and one that ends on a weak metric position as feminine is not<br clear="none">> sexist...? Didn't we sort this out in 1991?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Jennifer<br
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