Cadences

These interruptions of the musical current, called Cadences, are generally so well defined that even the more superficial listener is made aware of a division of the musical pattern into its sections and parts, each one of which closes as recognizably (though not as irrevocably) as the very last sentence of the piece.

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898

Cadences jerk me back from my happy place with lyrics such as this:

bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2006

Of your Cadences in which the meeter is made Symphonicall, & when they be most sweet and solemne.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Cadences of the common Italian type with 6/4 chord or suspension swarm in _Tannhäuser_ and _Lohengrin_.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

_Of your Cadences by which your meeter is made Symphonicall when they be sweetest and most solemne in a verse.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Cadences, real cadences, real cadences and a quiet color.

Rooms 1914

Cadences, real cadences, real cadences and a quiet color.

Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Gertrude Stein 1910

Cadences serve the same purpose in music, then, as do the punctuation marks in rhetoric; and an idea of the senselessness and confusion of a musical composition, if left devoid of cadences in sufficient number and force, may be gleaned from an experimental test of the effect of a page of prose, read with persistent disregard of its commas, colons, and other marks of "cadence."

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898

There was sharp definition, at least, from the orchestra under Nicholas Collon, especially in the sparkling sound worlds of Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice as cleverly arranged by Iain Farrington and Elena Kats-Chernin's nervous, edgy Cadences, Deviations and Scarlatti.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hugo Shirley 2011

To there two Instruments they sing, which carries no Air with it, but is a sort of unsavoury jargon; yet their Cadences and Raising of their Voices are form'd with that Equality and Exactness, that (to us Europeans) it seems admirable, how they should continue these Songs, without once miffing to agree, each with the others Note and Tune.

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