Questions tagged [cadence]
A melodic and/or harmonic configuration at the end of a phrase, section, or piece of music.
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Andalusian 'Cadence'?
Cadences are two chords which come, usually, at the end of phrases. There are basically four of them, although U.S. defines some in more specific ways.
The Andalusian (Spanish) 'cadence' is a well ...
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In the musical texture “monody”, can the underlying harmony be provided with a single voice?
According to these wiki pages
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophony),
in Monody, ”one solo voice sings a melodic part, usually with considerable ornamentation, ...
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Resolving scale degree 2 in v7 to 3
Are there any circumstances (at least in the common period use) where the scale degree 2 in V7 goes up to 3 as opposed going down to 1?
Why does this seem to be disallowed in textbooks, even more than ...
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Why are there no cadences for the melody scale degree 4 and 6 in tonal harmony?
A simple question yet I cant seem to find an explanation for this in either of my tonal harmony books. They all parrot each other and talk about cadences where the melody note ends on ^1 ^3 and ^5 ...
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Are all chords that follow a cadence to an expected chord a deceptive cadence?
Is there a rule for deceptive cadence that can explain all 3 examples below? One of them I am almost positive is a deceptive cadence, but I don't know about the other two.
In the first two examples I ...
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What purpose does the third measure of Bach's 'toccata and fugue in d minor' serve?
I'm looking for an explanation on the effect and reasoning of Bach's choices in the third measure of 'toccata and fugue in d minor'. I can only presume its a cadence to resolve the chord built in the ...
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What are common pop/rock cadences and metrical stresses [closed]
I'm going through Joe Mulholland & Tom HijNacki's "Berkelee Book of Jazz Harmony" Chapter 1 and I have a few questions...
I see the various plagals, half cadence, deceptives, etc...Are ...
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Identifying Period Type
I've attached a music excerpt that's been stumping me. Is the attached passage a parallel period or a contrasting period? The rhythmic repetition makes it seem parallel, but the chord progression and ...
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Csus4, Csus2, C is there a name?
I set my DAW to organ and was playing with chords. I played Csus4, Csus2, C roughly 95bpm 2 counts each. The descending (in my opinion) dissonance from sus4 to sus2 to major feels really nice. But ...
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Mazeppa: meaning of cadenza ad libitum
In Mazeppa, 4th étude of Liszt, there is cadenza ad libitum: does this mean I can compose my own cadenza, as in Mozart etc ? or that I can play those scales as many times as I want ?
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Interpretation of Dominant IV7 chord moving to I64 -> V(7) -> I
I need your help to figure out how to interpret a Dominant IV7 chord in major moving to I64, like:
I -> IV -> IVDom7 -> I64 -> V -> I
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I -> ii6 -> IVDom7 -> I64 -> V -&...
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VII-i cadence in a minor key
I have read many people claiming that this cadence is actually a disguised V-vi in the relative major. But as a pianist and composer I do not feel this way at all. For a concrete example, here is a ...
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Is coda the same thing as a cadence?
So a coda is "the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure" (Oxford Languages). A cadence, according to Britannica, is the ending of a ...
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Is the I-IV-viio-I progression never usable?
This question arose while studying the circle of fifths.
Along with the cadence, I learned the progressions below.
viio - iii - vi - ii - V - I
I - IV - I
I - V - I
I - IV - V - I
But if 'I - IV - V ...
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Can an evaded cadence end the antecedent of a period?
I would especially like an answer in the context of the theory of formal functions, although input from other perspectives is also welcomed.
The question arised when I was analyzing the main theme (or ...
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