cadenza
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
/kəˈdɛnzə/
Definition of cadenza
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
“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.”
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noun
-
A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
“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.”
verb
- (South-Africa, slang)To become agitated or excited.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
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