codetta
music
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A codetta is a brief concluding section in music, essentially a "little coda". It often serves as a short coda, typically a dominant-tonic cadence that might be repeated for emphasis at the end of an exposition. In some contexts, it can also refer to a musical passage that links different parts of a movement or connects entries in a fugue. The term originates from the Italian word coda, meaning "tail".12
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