Can somebody explain what a cadence is?

Question

Can somebody explain what a cadence is?

Answer 1

A cadence is a place in a piece of music that feels like a stopping or resting point.



Think of "shave and a haircut two bits." That's a complete musical cadence. It resolves and stops.



If we only played "shave and a haircut" that would be a "half cadence" a place in the music that feel like it needs to resolve for completion

Answer 2

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Answer 3

In my field of performance, 'cadence' is code for the resolution of a musical phrase. In this sense, it has nothing to do with the rhythm of the music except that some rhythmic patterns seem to have a greater sense of finality and closure than others (masculine and femenine cadences). A cadence is better defined as a series of chords that brings both melody and harmony to an aesthetic point of resolution, which usually means resolving to the tonic chord. The strongest cadence in western music is dominant-tonic, also written V-I, such as G major to C major. Because this progression creates the greatest sense of closure, it was used almost invariably at the end of most music from the classical period and anything earlier. Even music in a minor key would tend to resolve using this progression and end on the major tonic, seeing as major chords are more harmonically stable (and therefore more pleasing to the ear). This cadence is the most stable and aesthetic because each of the fifth chord's notes moves smoothly to the notes of the tonic; D goes to E, G stays the same, and B (the most unstable note in the C major scale) resolves to C. This is known as the Perfect Cadence. Another is the plagal cadence, which in C major consists of going from IV (F major) to I (C major). Again, the finality of this progression is due to little movement. F moves to E, A moves to G, and C stays the same.

Answer 4

The term "cadence" refers to more than one thing, musically...



If you are thinking in terms of music theory, a typical cadence is the end of a phrase (it is the punctuation of music theory). The typical chord pogression for a cadence is V-I or V7-I. If you are in the key of C Major, the chords would be G-C or G7 - C. A plagal cadence is a specific chordal figure (typically used after a full cadence). It is the "Amen" after a church hymn. The chords would be IV-I (or F-C in the key of C Major). A half cadence is the end of a phrase on the V chord. It feels like it is unresolved, and typically will be followed by a consequent phrase that ends in a full cadence (V-I). It could be compared to a comma in a sentence.



If you are talking about a drum cadence (like ones that drum corps and marching bands use), it is a repeated pattern for the percussion section. These patterns can be 4 bars long or 40 bars long. The basic idea is that the group can march to the pecussion cadence without the horn line having to play.

Answer 5

A cadence is a point in a piece of music where the chords interact and resolve to form an ending to a musical thought. I am not sure how much of a backgroung you have in music theory, but unless you do it is kind of hard to explain.

Answer 6

Simply put it's an ending to a phrase or section of music. Can be prefect plagal imperfect or interrupted

Answer 7

A cadence is a military march song like you would hear when a platoon jogs by. The Caller calls one line and the marchers/runners repeat it to keep in step. Here's a list of cadences:

http://www.gruntsmilitary.com/cadence/journal.cgi

Answer 8

as I understand it, a Cadence is a pattern, like a marching band or rhythm in music

Answer 9

Ima drummer and a cadence is just a drum section performance

Answer 10

Music can be looked at as a string of melodic motifs - a melodic pattern that can consist of 4 or 8 ( or more ) beats - motifs that evolve as the composer wishes, though calculated changes. The song can then have surprising differences within the whole for effect.

Cadences are similarly used - rhythmic motifs attached to the melodic ideas that make the whole piece. Cadence refers to rhythm, be it in music or in poetry.

Answer 11

In the military it is a series of rhythmic counting or singing done in order to keep the marching or running troops in synchronous step, e.g.: 1 - 2 -3 - 4... 2 - 3 - 4 ... your left (foot) .. right left.