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stasimon

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ancient-Greek

Topics: broadcasting, drama, dramaturgy, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater

Examples

  • 1950, Amy Marjorie Dale, Stasimon and Hyporcheme, Eranos, XLVIII, pages 14-20, reprinted in 1969, Collected Papers of A. M. Dale, Volume 2, page 34, In the Parados the chorus is 'coming on', and has to move on to and across the orchestra to take its place in the middle; in all the stasima, however active and lively the dance, its evolutions are performed from that middle position (a choro tenente stationes suas, as Hermann said in 1844), and do no involve processional movement.

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History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στάσιμον (stásimon, “stationary”); compare stasis.