Accentus
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Accentus may refer to:
- Accentus (choir), a cappella classical music choir directed by Laurence EquilbeyLaurence EquilbeyLaurence Equilbey is a French conductor, particularly noted for her work in the choral repertoire.Equilbey studied piano and flute as a youth. She undertook formal music education in Paris, Vienna, London and Scandinavia...
- Accentus (fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguity, where the ambiguity arises from the emphasis (accent) placed on a word or phrase, see Reification (fallacy)Reification (fallacy)Reification is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea...
- Accentus EcclesiasticusAccentus EcclesiasticusAccentus Ecclesiasticus is a Church music term, the counterpart of concentus, indicating those parts sung solo by a clergyman. The terms accentus and concentus were probably introduced by Andreas Ornithoparchus in his Musicae Activae Micrologus, Leipzig, 1517.In the medieval church, all that...
, a Church music term