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There are four basic cadences - perfect, plagal, imperfect and interrupted - in U.K. terms.
- What is a perfect cadence in a minor key?
- Can a Plagal cadence be in a minor key?
- What cadence is minor V to I?
- What are the four principal cadences?
What is a perfect cadence in a minor key?
A minor plagal cadence, also known as a perfect plagal cadence, uses the minor iv instead of a major IV. With a very similar voice leading to a perfect cadence, the minor plagal cadence is a strong resolution to the tonic.
Can a Plagal cadence be in a minor key?
Plagal cadences move from the subdominant IV chord to the tonic I chord in major or minor keys. It still sounds pretty final, although it is not as strong a finish as a perfect cadence. Both chords are major in a major key while both chords will be minor in a minor key.
What cadence is minor V to I?
Actually, anything to V is a Half Cadence. A phrase that ends on V is a Half Cadence.
What are the four principal cadences?
In such music, the cadence can be regarded as analogous to the rhyme at the end of a line of metric verse. Four principal types of harmonic cadence are identified in common practice: usually these are called authentic, half, plagal, and deceptive cadences.
