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A small coda — a brief concluding passage at the end of an exposition or other section.
A codetta is a miniature coda that rounds off a section rather than the whole movement. In sonata form, the codetta closes the exposition, confirming the new key with cadential material.
Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 545, first movement — the exposition ends with a brief codetta confirming the dominant key.
Codetta is one of 1760 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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