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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Authentic or perfect cadence

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69453Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Authentic or perfect cadenceJohn Weeks Moore

Authentic or perfect cadence. The chord or harmony of the dominant, followed by that of the tonic, or the progression of the dominant to the tonic ; in distinction from the plagal cadence, the chord of the fourth or subdominant, followed by that of the tonic, or the progression

the subdominant to the tonic.