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Cadenza

noun

A brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music.

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"Cadenza" Quotes from Famous Books

... is thus dependent on two things. The first is the acquired character of the apperceptive form evoked; it may be a cadenza or a trill, a major or a minor chord, a rose or a violet, a goddess or a dairy-maid; and as one or another of these is recognized, an aesthetic dignity and tone is given to the object. But it will be noticed that in such ...

— The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana

... classes go only to the Italian Opera, and very rarely visit their national theatre. English freedom has degenerated into the rudest licence, and it is not uncommon in the midst of the most affecting part of a tragedy, or the most charming cadenza of a singer, to hear some coarse expression shouted from the gallery in a stentor voice. This is followed, either by loud laughter and applause, or by the castigation and expulsion of ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

Words linked to "Cadenza" : musical passage, passage