The Old New Thing

And… that cadence means it's halftime, concert-goers!

July 7, 2011 Jul 7, 2011 07/7/11

Raymond Chen

In college, one of my classmates (who is now the conductor of an orchestra, so I guess that whole music thing worked out for him) coined the term halftime to refer to a resounding cadence in the first half of a piece, the type of cadence that might fool an inattentive or unseasoned listener into thinking that the piece is over, when in fact it...