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A phrase member is one of the parts in a phrase separated into two by a pause or long note value, the second of which may repeat, sequence, or contrast with the first. A phrase segment "is a distinct portion of the phrase, but it is not a phrase either because it is not terminated by a cadence or
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Phrase rhythm is the rhythmic aspect of phrase construction and the relationships between phrases, and "is not at all a cut-and-dried affair, but the very lifeblood of music and capable of infinite variety. Discovering a work's phrase rhythm is a gateway to its understanding and to effective
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A phrase-group is "a group of three or more phrases linked together without the two-part feeling of a period", or "a pair of consecutive phrases in which the first is a repetition of the second or in which, for whatever reason, the antecedent-consequent relationship is absent".
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is often made, still the term "is one of the most ambiguous in music....there is no consistency in applying these terms nor can there be...only with melodies of a very simple type, especially those of some dances, can the terms be used with some consistency."
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John D. White defines a phrase as "the smallest musical unit that conveys a more or less complete musical thought. Phrases vary in length and are terminated at a point of full or partial repose, which is called a
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performance ... . A phrase is not pitches only but also has a rhythmic dimension, and further, each phrase in a work contributes to that work's large rhythmic organization."
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defines a phrase as "Any group of measures (including a group of one, or possibly even a fraction of one) that has some degree of
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separate from others, however few or many beats, i. e. distinct musical events like tones, chords or noises, it may contain.
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have been adopted into the vocabulary of music from linguistic syntax. Though the analogy between the musical and the
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However, the absolute span of the phrase (the term in today's use is coined by the German theorist
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is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a
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How to Understand Music: A Concise Course in Musical Intelligence and Taste
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What We Hear in Music: A Course of Study in Music History and Appreciation
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analyses the "typical musical phrase" as consisting of an "initial
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performance." The term was popularized by William Rothstein's
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Winold, Allen (1975). "Rhythm in Twentieth-Century Music",
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because it seems too short to be relatively independent".
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that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from
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Musical phrasing

Period
Haydn
Hob.

music theory
Greek
musical meter
figures
motifs
cells
melodies
periods
sections
cadence
melody
harmony
rhythm
linguistic phrase
Edward Cone
downbeat
Charles Burkhart
slur
legato
bars
measures
cadence
Hugo Riemann
Gestalt theory

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