?VII-I Cadence, ?III-I Cadence: Name?
I've gone through a bunch of ?VII-I and ?III-I cadences in rock music. In C major, they are B?-C and E?-C.
Is there a specific name for the two cadences? So far, I've been calling them authentic cadence variants, since both ?VII and ?III are substituting for V. Others had been saying so, as well.
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No. A widely cited scholarly paper calls them just what you do, ?VII-I and ?III-I. It offers a plethora of adjectives to distinguish different kinds of cadences, but none have the centuries of weight of the terms for the cadences that Mozart used.
Edit: One might call them variants of the authentic cadence, but that's an awfully broad name, not the specific name that you ask for.
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