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What is this false stop called? is there a single word?
share|improve this question The only term I've heard used is
False Ending –  Digital Chris Feb 22 at 4:01 The accepted answer
is good - but let me recommend music.stackexchange for future
questions about musical terminology. –  Carl Witthoft Feb 22 at
16:07 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 7 down vote accepted  In
classical music tradition such a dramatic break in the music
(not so much a false ending) is called a grand pause, a caesura,
or very informally, railroad tracks.  A grand pause is a more
expansive break, often notated with a whole measure of rest,
sometimes with the initials "G.P." over the bar.  A caesura is
typically a shorter break that often happens abruptly. It's
notated with two right-slanting parallel lines (looking like
railroad tracks, whence the informal label) that can be placed
at any point within the measure.  Your Yanni example is
somewhere in the middle of the two, a