cadences

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Cadences, real cadences, real cadences and a quiet color.

From Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Stein, Gertrude

If among all the Cadences in the Airs, the last allows a moderate Liberty to the Singer, to distinguish the end of them, the Abuse of it is insufferable.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

Of your Cadences by which your meeter is made Symphonicall when they be sweetest and most solemne in a verse.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

Prom the inferior or lower Cadences, the first, or full, Tone Shake, is not always excluded; for in a sharp Key it is always a Tone, and in a flat Key a Semitone, Pl.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

And is it not worst of all, to torment the Hearers with a thousand Cadences all in the same Manner?

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest