catabasis
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See also: catábasis
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[edit]Noun
[edit]catabasis (countable and uncountable, plural catabases)
- 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.