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half cadence

noun

Music.
  1. a cadence ending with dominant harmony.


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As to the endgame — no spoilers here — the details are not predictable in themselves, but, to put it in musical terms, there’s a sort of half cadence followed by an authentic cadence followed by a plagal cadence.

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Semi-cadence — Same possible meanings as half cadence.

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That song ends in a half cadence, forever unresolved.

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So not only did listeners have to put off hearing of the battle of Jephtha and the Israelites against the Ammonites, but the concluding chorus of Israelites also ended musically on a half cadence, the harmonic equivalent of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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The answering phrase, antithesis, is now quite different; and, in measure 48, is developed—with some new contrapuntal voices—to a half cadence in F minor.

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