Complex sentence: In conventional Western music theory, the English cadence is a musical device consisting of a distinctive form of approach to the authentic or perfect cadence used primarily by English composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Split into simpler sentences: In conventional Western music theory, the English cadence is a musical device consisting of a distinctive form of approach to the authentic or perfect cadence. It was used primarily by the English composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.