Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Accents

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Accents. This plural, in the old music, signifies verse, or song, and is derived from the Latin words canere (to sing) and cantus, (song ;) whence the derivation of accentus, the former denoting accent, the latter a musical concert, or the melody of birds.

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