The autocadence filter identifies cadences in sixteenth-century music.
Default behavior
The default behavior is to display suspensions/agents in red above each staff. Vocal functions at the cadence are shown in blue above final note of the cadence.
Hide suspension/agent labels
The -S option will suppress display of the suspension/agent labels:
Color cadential definition
The -c option will color the notes involved in definiing a cadential
voice pair:
The --color option can be used to change the color for cadential definition
notes:
The --color option can be used to change the color for cadential definition
notes:
Intervals
To display the underlying interval analysis for cadence definitions, use -i:
The -I option is similar to -i, but final cadential analysis is not done.
The -I option is similar to -i, but final cadential analysis is not done.
Lowest note dissonance analysis
By default, suspensions will be used to label dissonances for the
cadential definitions. Use the -l option to use the lowest note
to label dissonances:
Append cadential definition index
In order to identify which cadential definition was used to
mark a cadential pair, add the -d option:
The -r option will show all a list of all of the cadential definitions
found in the score.
Tips
To compare lowest-note identification of dissonant fourths compared to suspension identification of dissonant fourths, use this filter:
autocadence -clidr | autocadence -dS --color orange
To remove lyric text before analysis, use extract -i kern:
extract -i kern | autocadence -cldr | autocadence -dS --color orange