musical phrase

Noun

Meaning

a short musical passage

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For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note... to generate a new musical phrase. Daniel Levitin

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. Stendhal

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order. Josiah Royce

3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. Source: Internet

The new "Mambo" included a catchy counterpoint between the trumpets and the saxophones, that impulsed the body to move along with the rhythm, stimulated at the end of each musical phrase by a characteristic deep throat sound expression. Source: Internet

An advantage of starting with the triple step is that dancers can more easily change their foot work right at the start of the musical phrase. Source: Internet

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