English
English cadence
From English + cadence, coined due to its popularity with composers of the English Renaissance of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.
A compound of English + cadence
Proto-West Germanic *Angli ‘an Angle’
Old English Engle ‘the Angles’
Old English Englisċ ‘of the Angles’
Middle English Englisch ‘of England’
English English
Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-
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Latin cadō ‘to fall, to cease’
Latin *cadentia ‘falling’
Old Italian cadenza ‘conclusion of a phrase of music’
Middle French cadence
English cadence
The story
From English + cadence, coined due to its popularity with composers of the English Renaissance of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.
Today it means
noun 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
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English cadence