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Cadenza

noun
1.
A brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music.





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"Cadenza" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the final cadenza, the composer has cut out the word "ora" altogether. The whole air is of interest to the musical student, as it shows clearly the little value attached by Verdi, at that period of his career, to the exigencies of the verbal or poetic phrase. This neglect of the verbal punctuation ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam


Words linked to "Cadenza" :   musical passage, passage


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