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cadenza(dictionary)

cadenza (iou)



cadenza noun. M18.
[Italian: see CADENCE.]
Music. A (sometimes improvised) flourish or passage for a solo instrument or voice, usu. near the close or between the divisions of a movement; spec. such a passage in a concerto in which the main themes of the movement (usu. the first or last) are developed.