cadenza
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cadenza (plural cadenzas or cadenze)
- (music) A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
- Yes, laugh, as I want to laugh for instance in the concert hall when the orchestra trundles to a stop and the virtuoso at his piano, hunched like a demented vet before the bared teeth of this enormous black beast of sound, lifts up deliquescent hands and prepares to plunge into the cadenza.
Translations[edit]
decorative solo piece of music
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin cadēns, present participle of cadō (“to fall”). Doublet of chance.
Noun[edit]
cadenza f (plural cadenze)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
Many of the borrowings have had their endings Latinized.
- → Catalan: cadència
- → Danish: kadence
- → Friulian: cadence
- → Dutch: cadens
- → Dutch: cadans
- → Esperanto: kadenco
- → Estonian: kadents
- → Finnish: kadenssi
- → German: Kadenz
- → Hebrew: קדנצה
- → Hungarian: kadencia
- → Old French: cadence
- → Ido: kadenco
- → Occitan: cadéncia
- → Portuguese: cadência, cadenza
- → Romanian: cadență
- → Russian: каденция (kadencija)
- → Serbo‐Croatian: kadenca, каденца
- → Slovene: kadenca
- → Spanish: cadencia, cadenza
- → Ukrainian: каденція (kadencija)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cadenza
- inflection of cadenzare:
Further reading[edit]
- cadenza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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