We're used to pieces ending with a predictable plugged-in cadential module; Poulenc plugs in a module, but it's not the predicted one, and our musical expectations are yanked in two directions at once. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Olbermann does have a weird cadential thing going on throughout these 12-plus minutes ... but dammit, I'm glad he said it. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
It might seem like a stretch to say that Schumann intends to link these four songs (possibly along with another, "Mondnacht," which ends somewhat similarly) merely through this stock cadential figure. From Wordnik.com. [Categorical denials] Reference
Ends of phrases were slightly ornamented, probably from quite early on, to provide satisfactory cadential suspensions; it is unlikely, at least in choral performance, that general ornamentation was introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Now on the other hand, the English iambic tetrameter is a hesitating, loose, capricious form, always in danger of having its opening semeion chopped off, or of being diluted by a recurrent trimeter, or of developing a cadential lilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference
See, again, No. 22 of the Songs Without Words; the first and second phrases are small; the third phrase, however (reaching from measure 6 to 9 without cadential interruption), is of regular dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
It is by thus sustaining the rhythmic pulse, during the measure allotted to the cadence-chord, that the desired dual impression, -- that of cadential interruption without actual cessation, -- is secured. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
His madcap opera, "L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)" opens with pizzicato in the overture and builds with pitter-patter and cadential singing in which you'd be hard pressed to identify melody. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
The core of Bridge Burning, the opening song, is a tight minimal verse and satisfyingly cadential chorus, but these haven't just been switched around with a bridge thrown in to keep the alternation from going stale. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
At the end of an entire piece of music, or of some larger section of the piece, the cadence-chord, on the other hand, is often lengthened considerably, for the sake of the greater weight and decision of cadential interruption required at that place. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
And it is therefore an almost invariable practice, especially in music of a higher order, to modify and disguise the cadences by some means or other; that is, to diminish the weight of the characteristic "longer tone," -- to counteract, partially or entirely, the impression of actual cadential cessation, by continuing (instead of interrupting) the rhythmic pulse. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
If not as consistently rewarding (or memorable) to listen to, the Volkmann nevertheless receives an affectionate and spirited performance from Müller-Schott, and the gently reflective final section, after some quicker outbursts, is a thing of genuine beauty, with a strange ruminative passage that dissolves away near the end before the affirmative cadential chords. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Nos. 4 and 5 are both extreme cases; the actual cadence-tone is shifted to the very end of the measure, so that the effect of cadential interruption is very vague and transient, -- and will be quite lost unless the player is intelligent enough to emphasize, slightly, the phrasing (by making a distinct, though very brief, pause before attacking the following measure). From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
But around 1450, or even before, composers and performers started to use a contratenor bassus, derived not from the discantus but from the tenor, beneath which they sang alternate 3rds and 5ths, beginning and ending with a unison or octave, and with the cadential octave preceded by a 5th; to the resulting tricinium a new kind of contratenor altus might also be added, by singing alternate 3rds and 4ths above the tenor, beginning and ending with a 5th, and with the cadential 5th preceded by a 4th see exx.3 and 4 below. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Chui dicese non l’amare is one of four pieces printed in Petrucci’s Frottole Libro Sexto 1505 which are striking for their highly melismatic vocal lines and cadential dissonances. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
5th, 6th and 7th measures, serve only to establish melodic, or rather rhythmic, variety, and have no cadential force whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
The cadential motif repeats throughout. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers] Reference
The melody ends with a cadential figure, sol-do-mi-re-do. From Wordnik.com. [Categorical denials] Reference
"Die Stille" end with the same cadential figure as "Waldgespräch". From Wordnik.com. [Categorical denials] Reference
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