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cadenza
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadenza \Ca*den"za\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
Usage examples of cadenza.
Jalaeka got dressed and became Cadenza Fortitude, my substitute for a girlfriend.
I said to Cadenza, stunned by how relentlessly human and normal it had been, how real.
From the cobblestones outside and the general journey I guessed that I was in the fabled Cathedral of Cadenza Piacere Greg had told me about.
She played the cadenza from the Fifth Violin Concerto, to demonstrate the influence of the earlier composer, and Everard nodded.
Finally the Principal broke free, and, like an orchestra that has launched a soloist on his cadenza, Welch abruptly fell silent.
Came clanks, rattles, splashes, yells, puffing of steam, creaking turns of the windlass, and a frenzy of running around, and a great cadenza of obscenity.
It sat down and started playing with what appeared to be feeling, making up things that used the lessons as raw material, but transposed and inverted them, and linked them with interesting cadenzas and inventive chord changes.
And then I put a lot of twiddly bits, trills, cadenzas and runs, to imitate the piping of the drum and fife band.
As the high harmonic crowns the end of a long cadenza on a violin, fulfilling bars of difficult effort, this point of exquisite beauty flashed life into the Pattern of the story, consummating the labour of construction with the true, inevitable climax.
From the cobblestones outside and the general journey I guessed that I was in the fabled Cathedral of Cadenza Piacere Greg had told me about.
Bible on high, Simco served dinner again, striding the platform, going for his cadenzas as the applause spattered about him like rain.
Whatever those brief cadenzas had meant, the Cygnans picked him up again and toted him to a cluster of what looked like manholes in the spongy floor.
He discounted Merelan's suggestion that the girl would not be able to "read' the contralto line, much less manage the tempo changes or the cadenzas.
A tapestry of sound and music, words and tone, cadences weaving as threads, glissades, apparent cacophonies, the final, triumphant cadenza.