In musical terms, a cadence is a short phrase, usually a sequence of two chords, that’s used to ‘punctuate’ a chord progression. In the same way that regular punctuation in a text has commas, full ...

Vocal cadence is the ebb and flow, or the rise and fall, of our voice as we speak. These fluctuations in pitch and volume are influenced by grammar, accent, and even the context of the situation. For ...

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