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Word of the day - Oct 1: English cadence
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- (music) A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh). Conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.
☞ Today is International Music Day, which was initiated by the American-born British–Swiss violinist Yehudi Menuhin, then president of the International Music Council, to promote music among all sections of society through applying UNESCO’s ideals of peace and friendship between peoples, and mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values. It was first celebrated in 1975.
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