ca·dence /ˈkedṇ(t)s/
韻律,抑揚,調子,節奏
Ca·dence, v. t. To regulate by musical measure.
These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. --Philips.
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Ca·dence n.
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.]
Now was the sun in western cadence low. --Milton.
2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull
Seafaring men o'erwatched. --Milton.
The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. --Sir W. Scott.
4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
Golden cadence of poesy. --Shak.
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.”\= --Dr. Guest.
5. Her. See Cadency.
6. Man. Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
7. Mil. A uniform time and place in marching.
8. Mus. (a) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. (b) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
Imperfect cadence. Mus. See under Imperfect.
cadence
n 1: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter,
metre, measure, beat]
2: the close of a musical section
3: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadency]