NOUN
- a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic
How To Use plagal cadence In A Sentence
- But they both heard the bittersweet longing within the plagal cadence, and chose their vocabularies accordingly. Archive 2007-10-01
- _perfect plagal cadence_, the last two are _imperfect plagal_. Music Notation and Terminology
- The Beatles incorporated classical elements into rock so seamlessly that it is easy to forget that string quartets and Bach-like countermelodies and bass lines (not to mention plagal cadences) did not always populate pop. Question of the Day
