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CADENCE

Volume 3 · 132 words · 1778 Edition

or Repose, in music, (from the La- tin cadere to fall or descend); the termination of an harmonical phrase on a repose, or on a perfect chord.*

in reading, is a falling of the voice below the key-note at the close of every period. In reading, whether prose or verse, a certain tone is assumed which is called the key-note; and in this tone the bulk of the words are founded; but this note is generally lowered towards the close of every sentence.

in the menage, an equal measure or pro- portion, observed by a horse in all his motions; so that his times have an equal regard to one another, the one does not embrace or take in more ground than the other, and the horse observes his ground re- gularly.