coda
/ˈkəʊdə
/noun Music
1The concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure: the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda...
- This third section has already incorporated material from earlier in the movement and the coda extends this process.
- To alter the coda of that final movement is thus, by implication, to change the character of the entire work.
- At times, as in the coda of the first movement, the emotional release is transcendental.
1.1The concluding section of a dance, especially of a pas de deux or the finale of a ballet in which the dancers parade before the audience.She completed the difficult series of fouettes in the coda of the Black Swan pas de deux which even more senior ballerinas sometimes cannot manage as well....
- The short coda was another aerial ballet, after which the couple, yielding to the laws of gravity, returned to earth.
- A 16-year-old from North Carolina danced the variation and coda from the Don Quixote pas de deux.
1.2A concluding event, remark, or section: his new novel is a kind of coda to his previous books...
- The foreign minister added a coda to his colleague's remarks by urging a spirit of compromise in accession negotiations.
- The sad coda to this event is that, a mere five months later, this disaster is already a fading memory.
- In a coda to this collection, he states, ‘Writers thrive with patient, supportive, kindly publishers - and editors.’
Origin
Mid 18th century: Italian, from Latin cauda 'tail'.