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cauda
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n. any taillike structure
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The Cauda is a characteristic feature of songs in the Conductus style of a cappella music which flourished between the mid-12th and the mid-13th century. The conductus style placed strict rules on composition, and some such rules were devoted to the cauda, which came at the penultimate syllable of each verse. It takes the form of a lengthy section of counterpoint - where several simultaneous melodies are combined into one - slurred over the one syllable. The cauda was repeated in each verse.
The significance of the cauda in Conductus music is such that most Conducti were divided into the categories Conductus cum Cauda and Conductus sine cauda (Conductus with or without Cauda.) The latter made up less than a third of the repertoire.
The writing of medieval music did not include strict rhythmic notation, but when multiple notes were given to one syllable, known as a melisma, special notation, known as rhythmic modes, were used. As the cauda is a specific type of melisma, it contains this special notation.
The word "cauda" is derived from the Latin word for tail. Conceptually, it is easy to see in the cauda, the root of the modern term, coda, which arrived when Latin was replaced by Italian as the musical lingua franca.
Two notable examples occur in Vetus Abit Littera, a four-voice Christmas conductus from the Florence manuscript, and Dic Christi, Veritas, a tirade against clerical hypocrisy written by Philip the Chancellor. The latter is found in the Carmina burana manuscript in a monophonic version and in the Paris sources in an elaborate three-voice setting, laden with caudae.
Usage examples of "cauda".
That is why she needs a cauda draconis, although in truth I proved stronger than she expected, I suppose, since it was poor foolish Zoe who died.
The points on the ecliptic where it crosses are called the ascending node and the descending node, or caput draconis and cauda draconisthat is, the head and the tail of the dragon.
The cauda draconis has a particular role to play when a great spell is cast.
The cauda draconis died, but since he did not say so out loud, neither did she.
The most recent entries centered particularly on the cauda equina, the ganglion of nerves at the base of the spine.
It appears as if the entire cauda equina has been dissected out, starting at L1 and terminating at the sacrum.
And to think it all started with a single material: the neuronal membrane of the cauda equina, the divergent sheaf of spinal ganglia with the longest nerve roots of all.
Pendergast recognized it as a human nerve strand, undoubtedly from the cauda equina at the base of the spinal cord.
Putat Cardanus, ab extrema Cauda Halices seu Majoris Ursae omne magnum Imperium pendere.
North to south she descends, and that is the cauda draconis, the tail.
Every twenty-seven days, in the sphere above us, the moon moves from caput to cauda and back again.
It appears as if the entire cauda equina has been dissected out, starting at L1 and terminating at the sacrum.
That is why you are neither caput nor cauda draconis but rather seventh and least of our order.
The points on the ecliptic where it crosses are called the ascending node and the descending node, or caput draconis and cauda draconisthat is, the head and the tail of the dragon.
The points on the ecliptic where it crosses are called the ascending node and the descending node, or caput draconis and cauda draconis—.