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English cadence

noun
/ˌɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ ˈkeɪdn̩(t)s/US

Etymology

From English + cadence, coined due to its popularity with composers of the English Renaissance of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.

  1. derived from *ḱad-✻ — “to fall”
  2. derived from *kadō✻
  3. derived from *cadentia✻
  4. derived from cadenza — “conclusion of a phrase of music”
  5. borrowed from cadence
  6. compounded as english cadence — “English + cadence”

Definitions

  1. A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened…

    A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh). Conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.

    • A typical English cadence in C major, involving a B♭ that resolves to A followed by G, suspended on the third beat against a B♮ that resolves to C:

  2. A more complex example in G major, from the end of William Byrd’s Browning à 5

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA