codas

Concluding musical passages

Codas is the plural of coda, a concluding passage or section.

In music, a coda brings a piece to its close, often marked in scores with a special symbol.

The term extends to any concluding element: The film's coda showed the characters years later.

In linguistics, a coda is the consonant sound ending a syllable.

narrative

ending

Final portion of something

finale · wrap-up · resolution · closing · aftermath · postscript · afterword · culmination · sign-off · sendoff

musical

cadence

Rhythmic pulse or pattern

  • resolutionFormal decision or determination
  • endingFinal portion of something
  • finaleConcluding part of performance

tag · turnaround · outro · fermata · tonic · dominant · perfect · imperfect · deceptive · half

dance

ballet

Classical dance on pointe

pas · pirouette · jeté · ballerina · danseur · pointe · barre · repertoire · performance · sequence

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musical/narrative position

codaspreludes

Introductory sections or movements

introductions · openings · beginnings · prologues · overtures

function in structure

codasintroductions

Initial formal presentations

setups · establishments · initiations · launchings

linguistic syllable structure

codasonsets

Starting points of events

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