phrasing
- noun
- /ˈfreɪzɪŋ/
- Specialized
- Rehearsals are focused on musical concepts like phrasing, balance, blend, and intonation.
- phrasing and rhythm
- phrasing and articulation
- phrasing and dynamics
Examples
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So, the pedagogical applications of solkattu could aid the students in developing a heightened sense of rhythm, phrasing, and musicality.
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The conductor emphasized the importance of phrasing to enhance the emotional impact of the music.
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By hearing a professional musician, students can gain musical understanding of more global concepts such as phrasing and dynamics.
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Experienced performers can model appropriate tone, phrasing, and articulations quite readily.
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As part of our lesson on musical phrasing, I was teaching a song titled "The Rainbow" from one of the music textbooks.
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Combining various dynamics and phrasings can shape and infuse the melody with energy and interest.
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Intonation, phrasing, tone quality, rhythmic precision, balance, and the text-music relationship are focused on and perfected for performance.
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Change one important musical element through your conducting gestures (e.g., dynamics, tempo, phrasing, style).
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In order to convey the song's message effectively, the singer focused on her phrasing during the performance.
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Musicians often spend hours practicing their phrasing to achieve a more expressive melodic line.
How Phrased
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phrasing comes from the word phrase, which comes from the Greek phrasis meaning 'speech'. In music a phrase is like a short sentence of notes, so musical phrasing is how you group and shape those note-sentences to make the tune expressive.