[每日] cadence (n) 節奏
Word of the Day (Thursday November 27, 2008)
cadence \KAYD-'n(t)s\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/0656z
1. the measure or beat of music, dancing, or a regularly repeated
movement
2. a rising and falling sound; modulation; also, the falling
inflection of the voice, as at the end of a sentence
3. a series of chords bringing part of a piece of music to an end
I notice that when Hillary is experiencing turbulence she lapses
into a rhetorical style similar to that of John McCain's: a
sing-song rhythm in which every sentence is delivered with the
exact same cadence and ends on the same predictable beat.
-- Jacques Berlinerblau, The God Vote, Washington Post, May 5,
2004
"Every pitcher has a body cadence and rhythm," says Brock. "Once
you've learned to read it, you can tell whether he is about to
make a pick-off throw, and you can know exactly when you can
start toward second."
-- The Premier Pilferer, Time, July 14, 1970
Harmonic richness and variety entered victoriously where
stereotyped cadences, barren and threadbare progressions, had
reigned ad nauseam.
-- Carl Engel, Jazz: A Musical Discussion, The Atlantic, August
1, 1992
c.1384, "flow of rhythm in verse or music," from Middle French
cadence, Old Italian cadenza "conclusion of a movement in music,"
literally "a falling," from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin
cadens prp. of cadere "to fall." In the 16th century, sometimes
used literally for "an act of falling." The Italian form cadenza
was borrowed 1836 as a musical term for "ornamental passage near
the close of a song or solo."
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