cadenza
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin cadēns, present participle of cadō (“to fall”). Doublet of chance.
Noun edit
cadenza f (plural cadenze)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
Many of the borrowings have had their endings Latinized.
- → Catalan: cadència
- → Danish: kadence
- → Friulian: cadence
- → Dutch: cadens
- → Dutch: cadans
- → Esperanto: kadenco
- → Estonian: kadents
- → Finnish: kadenssi
- → German: Kadenz
- → Hebrew: קדנצה
- → Hungarian: kadencia
- → Old French: cadence
- → Ido: kadenco
- → Occitan: cadéncia
- → Portuguese: cadência, cadenza
- → Romanian: cadență
- → Russian: каденция (kadencija)
- → Serbo‐Croatian: kadenca, каденца
- → Slovene: kadenca
- → Spanish: cadencia, cadenza
- → Ukrainian: каденція (kadencija)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cadenza
- inflection of cadenzare:
Further reading edit
- cadenza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana