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cadenza definition

ca·denza (kə den)

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

Etymology: It: see cadence

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