Grosse Pause

A pause sign tells you to hold the note or rest for slightly longer than its written value.

Musicians call grand pauses “railroad tracks.” A fermata indicates the performer should hold a note longer than its value. In contrast, a grand pause instructs the musician to remain silent longer than the indicated the rest value.

A fermata (Italian: [ferˈmaːta]; "from fermare, to stay, or stop"; also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be prolonged beyond the normal duration its note value would ...

: a nonrhythmic rest in all parts in ensemble music. abbreviation G.P.

Pause which rhymes with laws and cause, comes from the Greek word pausis, "stopping, ceasing," which comes from pauein "to stop, to cause to cease." Why don't you pause and think about that for a moment.

pause in American English

1. a short period of inaction; temporary stop, break, or rest, as in speaking or reading.
2. hesitation; interruption; delay. pursuit without pause.
3. a. a stop or break in speaking or reading, which clarifies meaning.
4. Music. a.
5. Prosody.
6. to make a pause; be temporarily inactive; stop; hesitate.

Grand in this context just means big or large (large-scale). In the two instances you give, these are French descriptors: the Beethoven example roughly translates as "large-scale, sad sonata"; the Chopin "large-scale, shining waltzes".

a: Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. may be in the middle of a sentence or at the end of it. You can use commas, dashes, or ellipses to cue different types of pauses.

There are three types of speech pauses in spoken language silent pauses, filled pause, and breath pause (Igras-Cybulska, Ziółko, Ż elasko, & Witkowski, 2016) . While filled pauses contain filler words such as "um," silent pause contains no voice activity. ...

A pause is an opening. It acts as a portal to other options and choices, giving more dimension to your experience. Just as a small amount of yeast makes light of heavy dough, a small amount of pause here and there can leaven or lighten your life. You don't need much but it is a vital ingredient.

1. [no object] : to stop doing something for a short time before doing it again. She paused for a few seconds before crossing the street. We paused briefly to look at the scenery. He talked for over an hour without pausing.

to stop temporarily : to stop temporarily. 2. : to linger for a time. transitive verb. : to cause to pause : stop.