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sign. It is used where the exit from a repeated section is within that section rather than at the end. The instruction "To Coda" indicates that, upon reaching that point during the final repetition, the performer is to jump immediately to the separate section headed with the coda symbol. The symbol
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extended and intensified Classical practice was to expand the coda sections, producing a final section sometimes of equal musical weight to the foregoing exposition, development, and recapitulation sections and completing the
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in the appropriate key, confirming the tonality. If the exposition is repeated, the codetta is likewise repeated. Sometimes it has its ending slightly changed, depending on whether it leads back to the exposition or into the
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suggests that the reason codas are common, even necessary, is that, in the climax of the main body of a piece, a "particularly effortful passage", often an expanded
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form) has a similar purpose to the coda, but on a smaller scale, concluding a section of a work instead of the work as a whole. A typical codetta concludes the
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on one of the last syllables of the text, repeated in each strophe. Conducti were traditionally divided into two groups,
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Burkhart, Charles. "The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Major Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2" in Stein, Deborah (2005).
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The presence of a coda as a structural element in a movement is especially clear in works written in particular
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have sections identifiable as codas. A coda in these genres is sometimes referred to as an "
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sign is encoded in the Musical Symbols block of Unicode as U+1D10C MUSICAL SYMBOL CODA: 𝄌
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it is commonly called a "tag". One of the most famous codas is found in the 1968 single "
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For discussion of this coda, and of codas in general, see Rosen, Charles (1988)
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can be used to provide a special ending for the final verse of a song.
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movements during the Classical era. In a sonata form movement, the
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of the 12th and 13th centuries. The cauda was a long
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in its thematic content, while adhering to the home
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[ˈkoːda]
Italian
passage
movement
measures
section

Mozart's
Piano Sonata no. 7 in C Major
K.
Play
musical forms
sonata form
variation
recapitulation
exposition
key
Beethoven
musical argument
Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)
Charles Burkhart
phrase
Italian
diminutive
exposition
recapitulation
sonata form
modulated
perfect cadence
development

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