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music-glossary: caesura

 
 1.47 caesura
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 ES: cesura, I: cesura, F: césure, D: Zäsur, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?, FI:
 välimerkki.
 
    [Latin: from the supine of _caedere_ ‘to cut down’]
 
    The break between two musical phrases, sometimes (but not always)
 marked by a rest or a breath mark.
 
 
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    breath mark.
 

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