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Meanings of cadenza in English

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Usage of cadenza in English
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One of his complaints concerned the long unaccompanied cadenza with which it begins.
The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
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The soloist starts in the eighty-seventh bar, and in the following commences a cadenza.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
3
Gee, did you hearken to the cadenza she turned loose?
The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
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Richard Burmeister has supplied the latter deficiency in a capitally made cadenza, which Paderewski plays.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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At the end Signor Graziano stopped his playing to give time for an elaborate cadenza.
Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
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The little cadenza in chromatic double notes on the last page is of a certainty Chopin.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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At one moment, after some particularly boisterous cadenza, I would be convinced it was the wife.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
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Guibert composes a veritable cadenza on the arrival:
The Deeds of God Through the Franks
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The guide struck a note and I sang a cadenza, which resounded like a thousand voices.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
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The concluding cadenza, that twirling line, reads plainly "Frederic Chopin."
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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Come once in a lifetime, sing all a trill, a staccato ha-ha-ha, cadenza, a tough stuff-
Mildred Pierce
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Beer provided his own cadenza as per Ligeti's suggestion in the score and this was a highlight.
Radio NZ
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A curious marking, and usually overlooked by pianists, is the crescendo and con forza of the cadenza.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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When a poll-parrot can croak the cadenza
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14,...
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I sang "Le Rossignol," of Alabieff, in which is the cadenza Auber wrote for me.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
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And promptly tell your poet that the rhyme "cadenza"
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
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