Stress
The acute-like stress mark emphasizes a note where that stress contradicts the prevailing metre or phrasing. Schoenberg adapted stress and unstress signs from poetic scansion; the mark is not simply a decorative accent variant.
- Articulation
- Above the note
- A slash
Do not confuse it with
A normal accent marks emphasis generally; stress chiefly clarifies an intended metrical or phrasal contradiction.
What the sources say
- Dorico Pro — Articulations
Indicate notes that should be emphasized or not emphasized where that contradicts the prevailing meter, using stressed and unstressed marks.
- Unicode request for three musical symbols
Arnold Schoenberg ... borrowed the acute-and-breve notation from scansion in poetry to represent stressed and unstressed notes that contradict the meter
- SMuFL — Articulation
articStressAbove — Stress above