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In music, cadence is the name given to the closing - usually last two - chords of a phrase. The varieties of cadence may be grouped as perfect, imperfect and interrupted. The perfect must have its last chord on the tonic. When the penultimate chord is on the subdominant it is called an 'authentic'; when on the dominant, a 'plagal' cadence. The harmony of the imperfect is often that of the perfect reversed. The interrupted is a progression of chords leading the ear to expect a tonic chord, but another is substituted for the latter; the effect is often as charming as it is unexpected.
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In music, a deceptive cadence is a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
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In music, a demicadence is an imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
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In music, an imperfect cadence is one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord.
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In music, a morendo is a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.
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In music, a perfect cadence is a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, such as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
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In music a plagal cadence is a cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.
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