In the old days, concertos included a cadenza which was to be improvised by the particular player. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The word cadenza, Hoffman explains, comes from the word cadence - a closing sequence in a piece of music. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Schnittke's cadenza for Beethoven's violin concerto ... which begins with the Joachim cadenza from the Brahms!!. From Wordnik.com. [Salvati dunque e scolpati] Reference
And promptly tell your poet that the rhyme "cadenza". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891] Reference
At his touch burst bubbles burbled a rising cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
You show me the ADVSD, and I'll produce the cadenza. by. From Wordnik.com. [Highlights of the Advanced Energy Whistleblower Conference, Washington, DC, Dec. 12 and Dec. 13] Reference
The piano-player did a fancy cadenza and stopped playing. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
The last Airplane tour was proving the cadenza of the era. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
Can you imagine what that cadenza would've ended up being?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Comments tipico, cadenza dei muranesi, grande bocche pochi fatti. From Wordnik.com. [Murano Invaded by Rabbits] Reference
In the final cadenza, the composer has cut out the word "ora" altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
You connect that to my relativity cadenza and we will have ALL THE POWER!. From Wordnik.com. [Highlights of the Advanced Energy Whistleblower Conference, Washington, DC, Dec. 12 and Dec. 13] Reference
Jerry listened to her standard tune but did not provide a fitting cadenza for it. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
At the end, Signor Graziano stopped his playing to give time for an elaborate cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
His timing is impeccable, his bullet-like rat-a-tat speech keeping the cadenza coming. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Miller: David Remnick Interviews Jon Stewart: The Truth, With Sodomy Jokes] Reference
This was especially painful during the big first movement cadenza which was just a schmear. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Symphony 2009-10 Preview] Reference
In classical music, a cadenza -- a free-sounding, virtuosic passage -- typically comes at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Armstrong's Revolution] Reference
The last eleven, twelve bars I did that cadenza — that's as close to perfection as I'll ever get. From Wordnik.com. [Ex-Husband of Love Goddesses] Reference
His rangy, opening cadenza in "Darn That Dream" wobbles sumptuously, coursing with unfiltered emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Von Freeman's Core Corps, Captured In Germany] Reference
Again, to sing the final cadenza of this air as Meyerbeer briefly indicated it, would be impossible and absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
Some stretches of material sounded classical, like the up and down chords of a Beethoven violin concerto cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Spoleto Italy: A Lone Violinist at the Teatro Romano - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
After all, until that time, I did not know the difference between a cadenza and a concerto, an oboe and a bassoon. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: After 100,000 Gather in Central Park: How a Former Rocker Came to Embrace Beethoven] Reference
She notes that Lukas Foss's "Renaissance Concerto" (1986), composed for her, did not originally include a cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Rootin', Flutin' 40th Season] Reference
Moreover, she didn't have a good feel for how to fit the trills into the rhythmic line, or for the line of the cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsies, Nobles, and Nuns] Reference
I ended with a dying fall, and a showy cadenza on the kithara; my own, for he had not yet worked up his concert version. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
So declares renowned violinist Laster as he is about to begin his solo (the cadenza) in his friend Schneidermann's concerto. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Fiction] Reference
Occasionally you get one though like the harpsichord cadenza at the end of the first movement of the 5th Brandenburg concerto. From Wordnik.com. ["If 'brain sex' sounds like gender stereotyping, Dr. Moir says there is a twist: Brain sex doesn't always match biological sex."] Reference
Here is a revision of the latter, the cadenza being one I wrote for a pupil, Mme. Easton-Maclennan, of the Royal Opera, Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
As Figaro in "The Barber of Seville" last month at the Metropolitan Opera, he sang a cadenza with a high C, a note many tenors fear. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Doubt This Thomas] Reference
Mrs. Beach's piano works consist of a cadenza to Beethoven's C minor concerto, a valse-caprice, a ballade, four sketches, a "Bal Masque". From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
He heard a musical run like a trombone cadenza, saw he was sending a streaming lance of fire'like a flamethrower'straight at the Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
The other very striking moment was the solo cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I enjoyed the cadenza-like spot with left-hand pizzicato over a legato line. From Wordnik.com. [Violinist.com] Reference
Hoffman is particularly found of the faux-cadenza Mozart wrote for his piece. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
In the closing Fugue in G Mr. Carpenter added a boldly modern original cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Chung approaches the cadenza with the studied devotion we expect to hear in a Bach partita. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The violin cadenza generates a raucous energy, then the clarinet and piano rejoin Szigeti for the dervish last pages. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Bartok took Hungarian and Romanian dance melodies and fused them to jazz rhythms, even incorporating a clarinet cadenza. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
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