Cadence vs. Prosody — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cadence and Prosody
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Cadence
In Western musical theory, a cadence (Latin cadentia, "a falling") is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of resolution. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.
Prosody
The study of the metrical structure of verse.
Cadence
A modulation or inflection of the voice
The measured cadences that he employed in the Senate
Prosody
A particular system of versification.
Cadence
A sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical phrase
The final cadences of the Prelude
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Prosody
The set of speech variables, including rhythm, speed, pitch, and relative emphasis, that distinguish vocal patterns.
Cadence
Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory.
Prosody
(linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
Cadence
The measure or beat of movement, as in dancing or marching.
Prosody
(poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.
Cadence
A rhythmic chant, often in call-and-response form, used by soldiers to keep in step when marching or running.
Prosody
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Cadence
A falling inflection of the voice, as at the end of a sentence.
Prosody
The patterns of stress and intonation in a language
Cadence
General inflection or modulation of the voice.
Prosody
(prosody) a system of versification
Cadence
(Music) A progression of chords moving to a harmonic close, point of rest, or sense of resolution.
Prosody
The study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Cadence
The act or state of declining or sinking.
Cadence
Balanced, rhythmic flow.
Cadence
The measure or beat of movement.
Cadence
The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
Cadence
(music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
Cadence
(music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
Cadence
(speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
Cadence
(dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.
Cadence
(fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
Cadence
(running) The number of steps per minute.
Cadence
(cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
Cadence
(military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
Cadence
(heraldry) cadency
Cadence
(horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
Cadence
(horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
Cadence
(software development) The frequency of regular product releases.
Cadence
To give a cadence to.
Cadence
To give structure to.
Cadence
The act or state of declining or sinking.
Now was the sun in western cadence low.
Cadence
A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
Cadence
A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
Blustering winds, which all night longHad roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lullSeafaring men o'erwatched.
The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence.
Cadence
Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
Golden cadence of poesy.
If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence."
Cadence
See Cadency.
Cadence
Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
Cadence
A uniform time and place in marching.
Cadence
The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
Cadence
To regulate by musical measure.
These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief.
Cadence
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Cadence
The close of a musical section
Cadence
A recurrent rhythmical series
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