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perfect cadence

noun

Etymology

From perfect + cadence.

  1. derived from *ḱad-✻ — “to fall”
  2. derived from *kadō✻
  3. derived from *cadentia✻
  4. derived from cadenza — “conclusion of a phrase of music”
  5. borrowed from cadence
  6. compounded as perfect cadence — “perfect + cadence”

Definitions

  1. A cadence involving the resolution of the dominant chord (V) to the root chord (I).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perfect cadence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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