Caroline, like a horse who has just been touched up by the lash, starts off anew, and with the animation of one of Rossini's codas: "Yes, it's a very neat idea, to put your wife out in the country so that you may spend the day as you like at Paris.
"Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First"
Honore de Balzac
In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune.
"The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring"
George Bernard Shaw