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    "cadence of colossal space"

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    "cadence of colossal space"

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    Can someone try and help me understand the use of "cadence" and "colossal spaces" in the following context:

    "The Crystal Palace contained important innovations in mass production of standarized materials and rapid assembly of parts, but its chief architectural merit lay in its ***cadence of colossal spaces***."
    (Encyclopaedia Brit.)

    I'm not looking for a translation, I just need to understand the meaning of this sentence. Does it mean that it made "colossal spaces" less ... well ... err ... "colossal"? Maybe someone can rephrase it somehow.

    P.S. To those who may not know: the Crystal Palace was built in 1852 out of iron and glass -- something unheard of in the architectural world.
    AuthorDoris L07 Nov 03, 14:23
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    A cadence in music is a number of consecutive tones which go well together. A cadence of spaces is probably a consecutive number of spacious rooms which together offer an expression of vastness and grandesse.
    #1AuthorWerner07 Nov 03, 14:33
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    For me, a cadence is not just "a number of consecutive tones which go well together", but a pleasing and standard sequence of tones used to end a piece. Nonetheless, I infer as Werner does that your text implies a sequence, a series of rooms, each of which is colossal and which, taken as a whole, are really colossal.
    #2AuthorNancy07 Nov 03, 14:49
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    I'd like to add some detail to the (musical) meaning of 'cadences': they not only serve to end up pieces, but to structure them by forming intermediate (harmonic) 'points of rest', from which the new/variated musical flow is moving on.
    Transfering this to architecture and to your example I'd see the Crystal Palace with its sequence of halls, rooms, stairs, a.s.o. - consciously or not - impressing the visitor as a well, i.e. harmonically, structured building that gives way to new insights and experiences of opening/closing, tension/detension, light/shadow, a.s.o., when passed through as conceived by the architect.
    #3AuthorPeter <de>07 Nov 03, 16:04
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    @peter: very nice "build" on the previous contributions
    #4AuthorNancy07 Nov 03, 16:12
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    @Nancy: Musically speaking: Thema con variazioni <BG>
    #5AuthorPeter &lt;de&gt;07 Nov 03, 16:16
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    Grazie a tutti!

    @Peter: Oooohh, I like that! Ta muchly.
    #6AuthorDoris L07 Nov 03, 16:55
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    Peter: It was, in this case, very much a conscious effort.
    #7AuthorKim10 Nov 03, 09:14
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    @Kim: If I get you right: I was referring to the visitors' impressions as 'consciously (realizing the architect's plans/efforts) or not, i.e. just sensing the underlying intentions'
    #8AuthorPeter &lt;de&gt;10 Nov 03, 12:35
     
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