(n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two multivariate methods, a logistic regression-derived algorithm and a Bayesian independence-assuming method (CADENZA), were compared concerning their abilities to estimate posttest probability of coronary disease in patients with suspected coronary disease.
(2) Comparison of sensitivity and specificity at every fifth percentile of posttest probability revealed that CADENZA was significantly more sensitive and less specific than methods A and B.
(3) Clinical utility, assessed as the percentage of patients correctly classified, was modestly superior for the new discriminant function as compared with CADENZA in the Hungarian group and similar in the American and Swiss groups.
(4) Mean post-test probabilities were as follows: TABULAR 34, CADENZA 48, DUAL BAYES 37 (actual incidence 38%).
(5) However, the mean posttest probabilities for CADENZA were significantly greater than those for method A or B (p less than 0.0001).
(6) Therefore, at lower probability thresholds, CADENZA was a better screening method.
(7) The probabilities that resulted from the application of the Cleveland algorithm were compared with those derived by applying a Bayesian algorithm derived from published medical studies called CADENZA to the same 3 patient test groups.
(8) However, methods A or B still had merit as a means to confirm higher probabilities generated by CADENZA (especially greater than or equal to 60%).
(9) All patients had post-test probabilities determined using CADENZA (better sensitivity).
(10) Comparison of sensitivity and specificity at every fifth percentile of post-test probability revealed that the sensitivity of DUAL BAYES was better than that of TABULAR and equal to that of CADENZA at thresholds less than or equal to 10 and that the specificity was better than that of CADENZA and equal to that of TABULAR at thresholds greater than or equal to 60.
(11) However, at posttest probabilities greater than or equal to 60%, there was overestimation of CAD by all methods, especially CADENZA.
(12) To assess the accuracy of the Bayesian computer program CADENZA for the prediction of coronary artery disease, the authors examined the probabilities generated by the application of this program to the clinical and noninvasive test results of 303 patients in a private referral center and 199 patients in a veterans' hospital.
(13) In the Swiss group, the discriminant function underestimated (by 7%) and CADENZA slightly overestimated (by 2%) disease probability.
(14) Those CADENZA-derived probabilities greater than or equal to 50% were substituted with post-test probabilities determined by Diamond and Forrester's original TABULAR method (better specificity).
(15) Another group of 950 patients was used to validate the algorithm and compare it to CADENZA.
(16) Overprediction was more pronounced with the use of CADENZA (average overestimation 16 vs 10% and 11 vs 5%, p less than 0.001).
(17) This suggests that the discriminant function is significantly superior to the Bayesian algorithm CADENZA for predicting coronary artery disease probabilities in subjects who have relatively high pretest disease probabilities.
(18) When given equivalent variable information, the logistic regression algorithm had better discrimination than CADENZA for estimating the probability of coronary disease following exercise electrocardiography.
Concerto
Definition:
(n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(2) It also somehow knows that, when I’m at the office, I often listen to Vivaldi concertos on YouTube, that I was (until now) a secret fan of even terrible police procedurals and that I have an interest in – as they term it, but I never have – suffrage, though I’ve neither liked nor posted about any of those things.
(3) It is hard to know where to start, and plunging in at random may lead to one of the many grey patches in his music, particularly in the later works such as the Strathclyde concertos.
(4) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
(5) Then there's a MacMillan triple bill ( Concerto, The Judas Tree and Elite Syncopations ) from 23 March to 16 April 2010.
(6) Meanwhile I’ve downloaded his recording of Brahms’s “third piano concerto”, and it is positively replete with humanity [see footnote].
(7) World Peace Is None of Your Business: tracklisting World Peace is None of Your Business Neal Cassady Drops Dead Istanbul I’m Not a Man Earth Is the Loneliest Planet Staircase at the University The Bullfighter Dies Kiss Me a Lot Smiler With Knife Kick the Bride Down the Aisle Mountjoy Oboe Concerto
(8) Would we be happy if a struggling concert pianist elected to amputate his hand so that he could perform Rachmaninoff's infamously difficult third concerto?
(9) Between 1987 and 1994, he composed 10 Strathclyde Concertos, each one written for the principal players of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and between 2002 and 2007 there appeared the 10 Naxos Quartets , commissioned by the Naxos recording company.
(10) He made it his mission to connect with as many different audiences and performers as possible, writing music for children, for his Orkney community, as well as grand symphonies – 10 of them, concertos, string quartets, and music theatre works.
(11) The tall, striking, glamorous Clark – an habitué of the Prada Italian restaurant on the Euston Road, where he would meet his bohemian friends for alcohol-fuelled lunches – had Anton Webern over to conduct his Five Movements for String Orchestra for broadcast; invited Igor Stravinsky to perform his own piano concerto on air, and Paul Hindemith his own viola concerto.
(12) It’s like someone storming into your house and throwing armfuls of flowers around, shouting: “I didn’t want to say anything but I’m just so incredibly moved by all these bouquets I’m receiving for that amazing thing I did!” @PeterBradshaw1 • This footnote was appended on 6 November 2014: Brahms’s “third piano concerto” is in fact Dejan Lazić’s own arrangement of Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
(13) His most recent UK productions have been a staged clarinet concerto and a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola on an acclaimed version of Tristan und Isolde.
(14) Sixteen adult subjects listened to tone pips superimposed on Bach concertos and either attended to the tones or to the music.
(15) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(16) The original said that recent UK productions included a staged flute concerto.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Häagen-Dazs’ augmented reality Concerto Timer iPhone app Russell Jones, the co-founder of Condiment Junkie , the sensory and branding agency behind The Fat Duck’s Sound of the Sea dish, sees brands beginning to take sensory marketing more seriously.
(18) People who say “there are enough newspapers”, are like people who say there are enough public parks or libraries, or piano concertos: always and forever wrong.
(19) In 1945, there wasn't a hint of irony or parody in the film's pounding Rachmaninov score (the second piano concerto, played to the hilt by Eileen Joyce).
(20) In 1979 he celebrated his appointment as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra with a typically electrifying concert of Brian Ferneyhough, Brahms – the First Piano Concerto, with his long-term concerto partner Maurizio Pollini – and Tchaikovsky, to whose symphonies he always brought a bel canto beauty of line.