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deceptive cadence

noun

Definitions

  1. a falling cadence in which the ear expects a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but…

    a falling cadence in which the ear expects a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but it resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deceptive cadence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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