Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plagal_cadence

1 sense of plagal cadence

Sense 1
plagal cadence, amen cadence -- (a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic)
       => cadence -- (the close of a musical section)

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