Crossword clues for cadenza
cadenza
- Concerto feature
- Virtuosic improvisation
- A brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music
- Virtuoso solo passage
- Virtuoso solo passage near the end of a piece of music
- Solo passage at end of a piece of music
- Solo display passage
- Short emperor absorbing a study of brilliant passage
- Noted passage roughly skirting port close to Suez
- Dance crazes going to extremes over virtuoso passage
- Musical flourish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ornamental passage near the close of a song or solo," 1836, from Italian cadenza (see cadence).
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.
WordNet
n. a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music
Wikipedia
In music, a cadenza (from , meaning cadence; plural, cadenze ) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing for virtuosic display. During this time the accompaniment will rest, or sustain a note or chord. Thus an improvised cadenza is indicated in written notation by a fermata in all parts. A cadenza usually will occur over the final or penultimate note in a piece, or over the final or penultimate note in an important subsection of a piece. It can also be found before a final coda or ritornello.
Cadenza is a mixed-voice chamber choir based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The choir was formed in 1992 and quickly gained a reputation for a high standard of performance, winning the Scotland and North England heat of the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition in both 1996 and 1998. The current musical director is Jenny Summerling.
Cadenza perform several concerts throughout the year, with the major event of the season being a performance of a major choral work - often accompanied by an orchestra and professional soloists - in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August each year. Such performances have received high praise from the press, notably Conrad Wilson of the Herald, who reviewed both the 2005 concert and the 2006 concert, which contained the Edinburgh premiere of Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa dei Filla.
Cadenza is the second album by the Marple band Dutch Uncles and their first album to receive a release in the UK. It was released on 25 April 2011 as an Audio CD, iTunes digital download and Gatefold vinyl. The album was recorded in Salford in Greater Manchester, England during the summer of 2010.
Cadenza is an improvised or written-out ornamental passage in music played or sung by a soloist or soloists.
Cadenza may also refer to:
- Cadenza (album), an album by the British band Dutch Uncles
- Cadenza (choir), a mixed-voice chamber choir based in Edinburgh, founded in 1992
- Cadenza (University of Cambridge), a mixed a cappella choir at Cambridge University, founded in 1997
- Kia Cadenza, a car
- Cadenza Interactive, developer of the game Sol Survivor
- The Cadenza, a magazine from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, devoted to the banjo, mandolin and guitar
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.