English cadence

== English == === Etymology === From English +‎ cadence. Coined in the 20th century due to its popularity with composers of the English Renaissance of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ ˈkeɪ.dəns/ === Noun === English cadence (plural English cadences) (music) A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh); conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.