2. Verb. (third-person singular of cadence#Verb cadence) ''(verb)'' ¹
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Definition of Cadences
1. cadence [v] - See also: cadence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadences
Literary usage of Cadences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Those cadences which are final should be called perfect, though the name perfect
... Those cadences which demand a continuation should be called imperfect. ..."
2. Observations on the Florid Song, Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern by Pier Francesco Tosi, John Ernest Galliard (1743)
"In Airs for a single Voice, or in Recitatives, a Singer may chuse which of these
Closes or cadences pleases him best; but if in Concert cadences; or, ..."
3. A Treatise on Harmony: With Exercises by Joseph Humfrey Anger, Henry Clough-Leighter (1919)
"cadences are divided into two classes, the regular and the irregular. ...
Perfect cadences conclude with th<! tonic chord, imperfect with the dominant chord ..."
4. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"The Five Original cadences. Mode Defined The relation of cadence and repose is
the basis of mode. The relation of tone-cadence and tone- repose originated ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"In the course of long compositions True cadences are occasionally found ending
on some note other than the Final of the Mode. ..."
6. A Treatise on Harmony by Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, William Pole (1883)
"cadences which lead from the key, may be fitly termed " cadences of modulation.
... Irregular cadences, or perfect cadences out of the key, designed not for ..."
7. Theory of Musical Composition, Treated with a View to a Naturally by Gottfried Weber (1846)
"In false cadences. The second case in which the seventh of the principal four-fold
chord tends to resolve itself into the next lower tone, is that of false ..."
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