Cadence

Noun

 * 1) Balanced, rhythmic flow.
 * 2) The measure or beat of movement.
 * 3) The general inflection or modulation of the voice.
 * 4)  A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
 * 5)  A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
 * 6)  A dance move which ends a phrase.
 * 7)  The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
 * 8)  The number of steps per minute.
 * 9)  The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
 * 10)  A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.

Adjectives for Cadence
self-possessed; monotonous; odd; singsong; calm; deep; mimic; best-measured; tinkling; merry; queer; wild; sardonic; nasal; minor; rollicking; weird;  hideous;  entreating; slightest; slurred; strange; rhythmic; musical; affectionate; lingering; effective; gentle; elegant; exotic; passionate; varied; soul-like; plagal; pathetic; pleading; enchanting; sorrowful.

Derived terms

 * perfect cadence / authentic cadence / closed cadence / standard cadence
 * perfect authentic cadence
 * imperfect authentic cadence
 * imperfect cadence / half cadence / open cadence
 * English cadence
 * Corelli cadence
 * Landini cadence / under-third cadence


 * phrygian cadence / phrygian half cadence
 * plagal cadence / amen cadence
 * interrupted cadence / deceptive cadence / surpise cadence
 * Andalusian cadence
 * drum cadence
 * ring cadence

Related terms

 * clausula
 * Tierce de Picardie

Thesaurus
accent, accentuation, acciaccatura, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appoggiatura, arabesque, arsis, authentic cadence, bacchius, bass passage, beat, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadency, cadenza, caesura, catalexis, catenary, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, coda, colon, coloratura, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, decline, decurrence, development, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, division, dochmiac, droop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, embellishment, emphasis, epitrite, exposition, false cadence, feminine caesura, figure, fioritura, flight, flourish, folderol, foot, grace, grace note, half cadence, harmonic close, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperfect cadence, incidental, incidental note, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ionic, jingle, lapse, level of stress, lilt, long mordent, lowering, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mixed cadence, molossus, mora, mordent, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, numbers, ornament, paeon, part, passage, pentameter, pentapody, period, phrase, plagal cadence, pralltriller, primary stress, proceleusmatic, prosodics, prosody, pulse, pyrrhic, quantity, refrain, resolution, response, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, ritornello, roulade, run, sag, secondary stress, section, single mordent, sinkage, slump, spondee, sprung rhythm, stanza, statement, strain, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, submergence, subsidence, swag, swing, syzygy, tailpiece, tempo, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, turn, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verse, weak stress