catabasis

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catabasis (countable and uncountable, plural catabases)

  1. Alternative spelling of katabasis
    • 2007, Victoria Adamenko, Victoria Bowles, Neo-mythologism in Music, page 101:
      Figure 37 also demonstrates the use of catabasis, or descending motion, in the parts for trumpets, pianos, and low strings.
    • 2019, Gregory L. Ulmer, KONSULT: Theopraxesis, page 83:
      The Inferno is one of the most famous examples of catabasis in the Western Tradition.
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