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Half cadence

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(Mus.) a cadence on the dominant.

See also: Half



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Encouraging viewers to draw on their own knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, Gordon employs the traditional vocabulary of analysis and speaks about four-bar phrases, dominant seventh chords, half cadences and so forth, to guide the viewer through the piece.
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The half cadence in the tonic, measure 8, which is approached by way of an extended modified sequence of the "Edward, Edward" motive, affords a musical realization of the Mother's question, "And why are ye so sad, O?
 
 
 
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