| 单词 | cadenza |
| 释义 | cadenza (once / 26266 pages) n A cadenza is a solo that’s part of a larger piece of music such as a sonata. It takes great skill to play a cadenza. Have you ever been to a rock concert and heard the guitarist or drummer do a solo? A cadenza is kind of like that, except it’s part of the classical-music tradition. Cadenzas are for virtuosos: extremely talented, expert players of their instruments. Often, a cadenza comes near the end of a piece, and the cadenza should be an exciting, powerful climax. Like many musical terms, it's on permanent loan from Italian; cadence is the closest word in modern English. WORD FAMILYcadenza: cadenzas USAGE EXAMPLESAnd in the frenzied finale’s little cadenza, with its slips and lurches, she gladly embraces the role of the drunken peasant. The New Yorker(Dec 13, 2016) In one of the Berlin performance’s extended cadenzas, laden with scat, she quotes highlights from her past as if this were an operatic mad scene. New York Times(Dec 04, 2016) The too-familiar notes were struck: the overture of cynicism, the air of conspiracy, the cadenza of opportunism—and, inevitably, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. Time(Nov 29, 2016) n a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music Hyper musical passage, passage a short section of a musical composition |
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