Look up: Cadence

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   cadence
   the end of a musical phrase. A cadence typically has some kind of closing gesture and a concluding note; its finality is judged by the relationship of the concluding note to the final (that is, to the central pitch of the piece). See ouvert, clos, landini cadence, medial cadence, sixth-to-octave cadence.
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   Cadence
   In music, cadence is the name given to the closing - usually last two - chords of a phrase. The varieties of cadence may be grouped as perfect, imperfect and interrupted. The perfect must have its last chord on the tonic. When the penultimate chord is on the subdominant it is called an 'authentic'; when on the dominant, a 'plagal' cadence. The harmony of the imperfect is often that of the perfect reversed. The interrupted is a progression of chords leading the ear to expect a tonic chord, but an...
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   Cadence
   The natural rhythm of speech - as opposed to the rhythm of meter.
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   cadence
   French-Antillean dance music based, in part, on the compas-direct from Haiti.
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   cadence
   [n] - a recurrent rhythmical series
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   Cadence
   the rhythm in which a sequence of movements is made
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   Cadence
   the rhythm in which a sequence of movements is made
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   cadence
   one of the sound characteristics Category: News-systems and communications
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   Cadence
   the beat, time or measure of rhythmic motion or activity such as pedaling a bicycle. Your cadence is the speed of your pedaling.
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    Cadence
    Ca'dence noun [ Middle English cadence , cadens , Late Latin cadentia a falling, from Latin cadere to fall; confer French cadence , Italian cadenza . See Chance .] 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. [ Obsolete] « Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. » 2. A fall of the voice in read ...
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    Cadence
    Ca'dence transitive verb To regulate by musical measure. « These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. Philips. »
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    cadence
    cadency noun a recurrent rhythmical series
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    cadence
    noun the close of a musical section
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    Cadence
    • (n.) See Cadency. • (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. • (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. • (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. • (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse...
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    cadence
    (from the article `prosody`) ...line [ {double pipe} ] to mark the caesura, or pause in the line; a rest [] to mark a syllable metrically expected but not actually occurring.) ...
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    cadence
    in music, the ending of a phrase, perceived as a rhythmic or melodic articulation or a harmonic change or all of these; in a larger sense, a cadence ... [4 related articles]
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    Cadence
    Cadence is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `melodious, to fall ` Where is it used? The name Cadence is mainly used In English. Cadence appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 199.. 2007 was a `top year` for the name Cadence. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #199. The last time Cadence appea
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    cadence
    the ametrical rhythm of natural speech.
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    cadence
    
    1. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
    2. a recurrent rhythmical series
    
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    cadence
    cadence, in music, the ending of a phrase or composition. In singing the voice may be raised or lowered, or the singer may execute elaborate variations within the key. In instrumental music, with development of the theory of harmony, the cadence became completely dependent on the change of chord. If...
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