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Name: Cadence in Music
ID: m12402
Language: English (en)
Summary: A cadence is a place in a piece of music that feels like a stopping or resting point. In tonal music, cadences are classified by their chord progressions.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: authentic cadence, cadence, dominant, false cadence, imperfect cadence, music, perfect cadence, phrase, plagal, plagal cadence, rhythm harmonic rhythm, tonic
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.9 (history)
First publication date: May 26, 2004 10:35 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Oct 4, 2007 12:24 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m12402_1.9.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.9 Oct 4, 2007 12:24 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
fixed link
Version: 1.8 Feb 15, 2007 3:37 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added outline svg and eps files
Version: 1.7 Nov 6, 2006 2:59 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Extensive rewrite of opening paragraphs, added links and an exercise, slight changes to rest of text.
Version: 1.6 Feb 1, 2006 12:38 pm US/Central by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Fixed document/@id so that course publishing would create correct page references.
Version: 1.5 Jan 31, 2006 6:36 pm US/Central by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Uploaded fixed EPS files.
Version: 1.4 Jan 31, 2006 10:55 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added a name to figure
Version: 1.3 Jan 26, 2006 9:35 pm US/Central by Chuck Bearden
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Version: 1.2 Jan 24, 2006 3:26 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added some text, a link, and a figure.
Version: 1.1 Oct 12, 2004 2:55 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module

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