Coda as a section of a movement

The presence of a coda as a structural element in a musical movement is especially clear in works written in particular musical forms. In a sonata form movement, the recapitulation section will generally follow the exposition in its thematic content, while adhering to the home key. The recapitulation often ends with a passage that sounds like a termination, paralleling the music that ended the exposition; thus any music coming after this termination will be perceived as extra material; i.e. as a coda. In works in variation form, the coda occurs following the last variation and will be very noticeable as the first music not based on the theme.

Codas were commonly used in both sonata form and variation movements during the Classical era. One of the ways that Beethoven extended and intensified Classical practice was to expand the coda sections, producing a final section sometimes of equal musical weight to the foregoing exposition, development and recapitulation sections and completing the musical argument. For one famous example, see Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven).

The musical function of codas

Charles Burkhart (2005, 12) suggests that the reason codas are common, even necessary, is that in the climax of the main body of a piece a "particularly effortful passage", often an expanded phrase, is often created by "working an idea through to its structural conclusions" and that after all this momentum is created a coda is required to "look back" on the main body, allow listeners to "take it all in", and "create a sense of balance."

In music notation

In music notation, the coda symbol is used as a navigation marker, similarly to the dal Segno sign. It looks like a set of crosshairs. It is encountered mainly in transcriptions of popular music, and is used where the exit from a repeated section is within that section rather than at the end. The instruction "To Coda" indicated that the performer is to jump to the separate section headed with the symbol.

Cauda

Codetta

Codas in popular music

Many songs in rock and other genres of popular music have sections identifiable as codas. A coda in these genres is sometimes referred to as an outro and in jazz and worship music as a tag. See also fade out.

See also

• Da capo
• Dal segno
• Epilogue

Notes

References

• Burkhart, Charles. "The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Major Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2" in Stein, Deborah (2005). Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517010-5.
• Rosen, Charles (1988) Sonata Forms, 2nd edition. New York: Norton.

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See also

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• List of twelve-step groups
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• Self-help groups for mental health

References

External links

• Co-Dependents Anonymous
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• Co-Dependents Recovery Society (Canada)

• Coda is sometimes used to denote any concluding event, summation, or section

Music

• Coda (music), a passage which brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation
• Coda (album), a 1982 album by rock group Led Zeppelin
• Coda (Mexican band), a rock band from Mexico

Television

• Coda (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Comics & Games

• CODA System, a role-playing game system developed and published by Decipher, Inc.
• Coda (Wildstorm), a group of female warriors in Wildstorm comics
• Coda (board game), a code-breaking board game also known as DaVinci Code

Computing

• Coda (file system), a very stable filesystem from Carnegie Mellon University
• Coda (web development software), a shareware application developed by Panic
• CODA (company), a UK subsidiary of Unit 4 Agresso, producing financial software

Other

• Syllable coda, in linguistics, the final consonant(s) of a syllable
• Coda (company), provides accounting and procurement systems, financial analysis tools and consultancy services
• For poetic coda, see caudate sonnet.

CODA is a four-letter acronym for:

• Co-Dependents Anonymous, a twelve-step program
• Child of deaf adult, a hearing person who was raised by a deaf parent or guardian
• CEBAF On-line Data Acquisition, where CEBAF is an acronym for continuous electron beam accelerator facility
• Air Defense Operations Center in Brazil; in portuguese, "Centro de Operações de Defesa Aérea"