césure

silent pause In music, a caesura denotes a brief, silent pause, during which metrical time is not counted.

An epic caesura occurs in these lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth: “but how of Cawdor? / The Thane of Cawdor lives.” The lyric caesura is a feminine caesura that follows an unstressed syllable normally required by the metre. It can be seen in A.E. Houseman's “they cease not fighting / east and west.”

Usually, a caesura means total silence, but not for long. A caesura is a pause, or an interruption. In musical notation, a caesura is a break in the music, which can be a good time for a trumpet player to catch his breath.

The word caesura, borrowed from Late Latin, is ultimately from Latin caedere meaning "to cut." Nearly as old as the 450-year-old poetry senses is the general meaning of "a break or interruption."

Break, pause Break, pause, or interruption in the normal tempo of a composition. Typically indicated by "railroad tracks", i.e., two diagonal slashes.

From my experience, in "classical" music (as opposed to jazz etc), a tick would imply a breath but no change in meter; a comma would imply an actual audible gap, but no more than a small one; a caesura / break implies that the music actually halts, perhaps to change tempo (and depending on the expertise of the players, ...

A caesura is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. It usually comes in the form of punctuation, and the most common ones are full stops and commas. A full stop creates a harsher contrast between the first and second part of the line. Look out for the use of colons, dashes, and semi-colons too.

break On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to caesura, such as: break, interval, pause, rest, and stop.

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.

In music, it's the pauses that make the rhythms. It's in the pauses that the notes settle in and have time to reverberate in our hearts.

The effect of a caesura often depends on the tone and content of the individual poem, but it often has the effect of creating contrast, or providing a pause to allow the reader to take in the information presented in the first part of the line.

Caesura is certainly a structural technique. It is a break between words which does not coincide with the break between metrical feet. Conventionally structured Latin hexameter verse requires a caesura roughly midway through the line.