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Definition of Codettas
1. codetta [n] - See also: codetta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codettas
Literary usage of Codettas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extempore Playing: Forty Lessons in the Art of Keyboard Composing by Alfred Madeley Richardson (1922)
"... LESSON XXXI EXTENSIONS AND codettas The foregoing lesson was concerned with
the texture of the musical material; it will be well to consider now how to ..."
2. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"The latter (a series of codettas) is extremely unlikely to appear anywhere in
the course of a composition; hence it is safe to say that the term Coda will ..."
3. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"In Var. 5 the form is unchanged. In Var. 6 (a partial Canon) the form is enlarged
by extensions, and codettas (as in Var. 4 and Var. 8). Var. ..."
4. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"*4) There are two codettas, respectively two measures, and one measure, in length,
closely analogous to the foregoing thematic members, and each duplicated. ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"To distinguish the principal subjects from what we might call the auxiliary
matter—that is to say, the episodes, codettas, modulating and other passages— is ..."
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