cadenza
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
Noun
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
decorative solo piece of music
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin cadēns, present participle of cadō (“to fall”).
Noun
cadenza f (plural cadenze)
Verb
cadenza
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