noun
definition
A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
Examples of cadenza in a Sentence
He's going to play the glockenspiel cadenza too!
Stephen Hopper was the soloist in a tightly controlled Haydn Trumpet Concerto, with a lovely cadenza at the end of the Allegro.
Well done to all players, especially Jenny, who continued to play her solo cadenza despite an off-putting phone ringing!
The second nocturne is a fleeting scherzo retracing the same ground three times and culminating in a short cadenza for the horn.
In the old days, concertos included a cadenza which was to be improvised by the particular player.
Cadenza remained resistant to all isolates at the adult plant stage, including one isolate which was virulent on seedlings of the cultivar.