Accen’tus ecclesias’tic i (Lat.)

The musical inflections observed in intoning the gospels, epistles, etc., corresponding to a certain extent with the punctuation. There are 7 accents: (1) accent us immuta’bilis, the voice neither rising nor falling; (2) a. me’dius, falling a third; (3). gra’vis, falling a fourth; (4) a. acu’tus, first falling a third, then rising to the reciting-note; (5) a. moder a’ tus, first rising a second, then falling to the reciting-note; (6) a. interrogati’vus, at a question, first falling a second, then rising to the reciting-note; (da. fin a’lis, falling at the end of a Sentence by a fourth, by a diatonic pa age through the intervening tones.