A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Codetta

CODETTA is the diminutive of Coda, from which it offers no material differences except in dimensions. It is a passage which occurs independently after the set order of a piece is concluded, as for instance in the combination of the minuet and trio, or march and trio; after the minuet or march has been repeated a short passage is frequently added to give the end more completness. [See Coda.] [App. p.594 "For the special meaning of the word in fugue, see vol. i. 568a, and vol. iv. 138b."]

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