Accent in Music

Emphasis or stre regularly laid upon certain tones, designated generally by their position with relation to the bar acro the staff. Unle explicitly displaced the accent falls upon the first note in each measure; exceptions to the rule are created by forcing dynamic stre upon other parts of the measure, or by binding an unaccented to an accented note by a slur, the stre being thus displaced. Accents used in instrumental music are generally called grammatical or metrical. In vocal music there is also oratorical, rhetorical, æsthetic or pathetic accent, by means of which the IMG:content-0034.jpg:[graphic] Accentor modular is. Sylviida . The golden-crowned thrush belongs to family Syl vicolidæ .