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Cadences typically used in Western music from the 17th through the 21st century.

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In the plagal cadence the subdominant (IV) triad leads to the tonic (I). This cadence usually is an extension to an authentic cadence, and its most characteristic and formulaic usage in the West is with the final amen (IV–I) at the end of a hymn in Christian…
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