common measure vs cadence

common measure and cadence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
common measure	Yes	No	No	No
cadence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cadence is a hypernym of common measure; that is, cadence is a word with a broader meaning than common measure:

Other hypernyms of common measure include beat, measure, meter, metre.

common measure (noun)	cadence (noun)
the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad	a recurrent rhythmical series
an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly	the close of a musical section
a time signature indicating four beats to the bar	(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse