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musical phrase

NOUN
  1. a short musical passage

How To Use musical phrase In A Sentence

  • They studied thousands of volunteers and found their favourites all had long and detailed musical phrases. The Sun
  • _Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet -- _ has its internal recurrence, the folding back of the musical phrase upon itself; and as it comes over and over again it seems to set the whole poem swaying to its own music. Latin Literature
  • Most obviously, the four lines of poetry are set to four distinct musical phrases, each the same length twelve units of time and each closing with a "triseme" preceded by another long duration. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The nut tree before the house puts forth its green leaves and sheds its fragrance; its blossoms are lovingly embraced by the soft breezes, whispering to each other two by two, and offer their heads to be kissed, nodding and bowing; the song must be sung with an equal fragrance, each musical phrase in one breath: that is, with six inaudible breathings, without ritenuto. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
  • The song thrush is a classic example, and a top thrush is reckoned to have more than 100 musical phrases in his vocabulary. Times, Sunday Times
  • They studied thousands of volunteers and found their favourites all had long and detailed musical phrases. The Sun
  • The song thrush is a classic example, and a top thrush is reckoned to have more than 100 musical phrases in his vocabulary. Times, Sunday Times
  • The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.
  • They studied thousands of volunteers and found their favourites all had long and detailed musical phrases. The Sun
  • The limitations discussed above, together with the shortness and simplicity of the musical phrases militate against any level of complexity of organisation of the musical material.
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