# Ictus

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**Ictus** may refer to:

## Music

- Ictus, in music and [conducting](/source/Conducting#Beat_and_tempo), the instant when a beat occurs
- Ictus, rhythmic marking in Solesmes editions of chant; see [Rhythm in Gregorian chant](/source/Gregorian_chant#Rhythm)
- "Ictus", a 1960s song composed by [Carla Bley](/source/Carla_Bley), American jazz composer
- [ICTUS Records](/source/ICTUS_Records), independent record label for avant-garde jazz
- **ICTUS**, a Belgian orchestra specialising in contemporary classical music

## Other uses

- [Ichthys](/source/Ichthys) (also spelled "ictus", "icthus", and "ichthus"), an early Christian religious symbol
- [Ictus Theatre](/source/Ictus_Theatre), Chile
- Ictus, in poetry, a way of indicating a stressed syllable; see [Ictus and breve](/source/Scansion#Ictus_and_breve)

## See also

- [Palaeoapterodytes ictus](/source/Palaeoapterodytes_ictus), an animal species of the early Miocene or late Oligocene
- [Nodens Ictus](/source/Nodens_Ictus), a British rock band formed in 1986

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