English cadence (English, noun)
expansion: English cadence (plural English cadences)
Senses:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh); conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.
Forms:
form: English cadences
tags: plural