cadenza

[ UK /kˈædənzɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music
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  • The novel implicitly asks that we take the reading of a novel to be a unique experience, not just another rote variation on an a pre-established theme, just as Laster's "cadenza" is unlike any previously heard. Experimental Fiction
  • The Adagio movement consists of a similar formula, although the bittersweet writing in the first half is broken by an extended solo cadenza that combines sad feelings with dance-like freneticism.
  • Part II: Allegro Part III: Tempo I This becomes clear in the solo "cadenza," an Impressionist reverie in which a complex mood is evoked, requiring a titanic struggle to be played with a single hand. Sound of One Hand Playing
  • And promptly tell your poet that the rhyme "cadenza Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
  • The horns howl into the fray, trying in their own turn to convey one of the cadenza's motives.
  • In the Beethoven concerto Gould played his own cadenza - with a noticeable nod to Max Reger...
  • He remains silent in the melancholy slow movement but recovers for the finale, a virtuoso cadenza for solo violin and percussion, the violinist consoled at the end by two clarinets.
  • As the soloist waits, pizzicato quavers hurry along a twisted version of the piano's cadenza theme in the bassoons , everything still piano.
  • Ballou even squeezes in a reprise of his opening cadenza before the super-colossal breakdown, which somehow manages to reign in the song's momentum without sacrificing velocity.
  • As the first song played, I pressed different buttons on the joystick and keyboard and heard notes, chords, cadenzas, arpeggios, and even special effects typical of the piano.
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