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Cadenza

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Noun

1. cadenza

a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cadenza

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noun
1. 
a virtuoso solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music, formerly improvised by the soloist but now usually specially composed
2. South Africa informal
a fit or convulsion

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Cadenza

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noun
1. 
an elaborate, often improvised musical passage played unaccompanied by the solo instrument in a concerto, usually near the end of the first or the final movement
2. 
any brilliant flourish in an aria or solo passage

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cadenza

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n.
1. An elaborate, ornamental melodic flourish interpolated into an aria or other vocal piece.
2. An extended virtuosic section for the soloist usually near the end of a movement of a concerto.

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