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  2. Cadence - Wikipedia

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    The same device is used again in the recapitulation; this time the sidestep is—as one would expect—to F major, the tonic key of the whole Symphony. [citation needed] The interrupted cadence is also frequently used in popular music. For example, the Pink Floyd song "Bring the Boys Back Home" ends with such a cadence (at approximately 0:45–50).

  3. Phrase (music) - Wikipedia

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    A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. [7] Terms such as sentence and verse have been adopted into the vocabulary of music from linguistic syntax. [8]

  4. Cadence (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry cadence describes the rhythmic pacing of language to a resolution [2] and was a new idea in 1915 [3] used to describe the subtle rise and fall in the natural flow and pause of ordinary speech [4] where the strong and weak beats of speech fall into a natural order [5] restoring the audible quality to poetry as a spoken art. [6]

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter; Catalexis: shortening of a line by one element (adjective: catalectic) Acatalexis: the opposite of catalexis; Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element; Line: a unit into which a poem is divided

  6. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. [3] Giuseppe Cambini—a composer, violinist, and music teacher of the Classical period—had this to say about bowed string instruments, specifically violin ...

  7. Clausula (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Cicero comments that the incīsa (commata), because of their shortness, are rather freer in their rhythm, and should be used "like little daggers". The rhythmical period (numerōsa comprehēnsiō), he says, is a longer sentence composed of at least two cola, and is more sparingly used. The style which consists of a mixture of commata, cola, and ...

  8. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A Picardy third, Picardy cadence (ˈpɪkərdi ) or, in French, tierce picarde is a harmonic device used in Western classical music. It refers to the use of a major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section that is either modal or in a minor key. piatti Cymbals, generally meaning a pair of orchestral clashed cymbals piena

  9. Cadenza - Wikipedia

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    The cadenza was originally, and remains, a vocal flourish improvised by a performer to elaborate a cadence in an aria. It was later used in instrumental music, and soon became a standard part of the concerto. Cadenzas for voice and wind instruments were to be performed in one breath, and they should not use distant keys. [7]