Aaron Watson - Bluebonnets (Julias Song)

CESURA (from Latin caesura - cutting, cutting) - a term borrowed from the theory of a verse, where it denotes a constant place of a word-section defined by a meter, dividing a verse into half-stitches (syntactic pause is not obligatory). In antique verse this division coincides with the division of muses. phrases. In music, according to the verse, C. is metric, but a semantic line, revealed in the performance by a change of breath, stop, etc. It is similar to syntax. punctuation marks, C. are different in depth, along with the demarcation can perform connect. function (“pause voltage”). As a performance indication (eg, by G. Mahler), the word “C.” means a backlash (usually more noticeable compared to not having this indication). The comma (used already by F. Couperin), the fermat (on the time line or between notes), the signs and.Such designations are rarely used, because in the music of modern times, through development, overcoming C., is more significant than phrasal boundaries. Last b. h. provided by the composer at the discretion of the performers and often relate to Dep. voices, not music. tissue in general. M. G. Harlap.