Definitions for cadenzas

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cadenzas ca·den·za

Spelling: [kuh-den-zuh]

IPA: /kəˈdɛn zə/

Cadenzas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in cadenzas (aacdensz).

Definitions for cadenzas

noun

1. an elaborate flourish or showy solo passage, sometimes improvised, introduced near the end of an aria or a movement of a concerto.
2. an elaborate flourish or showy solo passage, sometimes improvised, introduced near the end of an aria or a movement of a concerto.

Origin of cadenzas

1745-55; Italian Vulgar Latin *cadentia a falling, equivalent to Latin cad(ere) to fall + -entia -ency; cf. chance

Examples for cadenzas

When the cadenza was reached in the public concert Beethoven quietly sat down.

It is significant that he played the cadenza, the most difficult part, best of all.

Ricordi's edition gives an alternative reading of the penultimate bar, in the style of a cadenza.

This volume also contains his own cadenza to the Beethoven violin concerto.

I had begged him to compose a cadenza for me, but he directed me to write one myself.

And in the department of cadenza and variation he deemed him without an equal.

Accordingly he requested that the cadenza might be suppressed.

I still had some minutes, and I used them for a sort of cadenza to whatever my performance might have been.

The sea returns Allegro molto e frenetico in full force, and likewise the vague motive of the story in a cadenza of violin solo.

There is in music an effect yet more magical than that of the cadenza.

This volume also contains his own cadenza to the Beethoven violin concerto.

I still had some minutes, and I used them for a sort of cadenza to whatever my performance might have been.

Ricordi's edition gives an alternative reading of the penultimate bar, in the style of a cadenza.

The sea returns Allegro molto e frenetico in full force, and likewise the vague motive of the story in a cadenza of violin solo.

It is significant that he played the cadenza, the most difficult part, best of all.

And in the department of cadenza and variation he deemed him without an equal.

When the cadenza was reached in the public concert Beethoven quietly sat down.

I had begged him to compose a cadenza for me, but he directed me to write one myself.

There is in music an effect yet more magical than that of the cadenza.

Accordingly he requested that the cadenza might be suppressed.