Answer by BobRodes for What's in a phrase?
In my first year of college, my teacher would say "YOU. ARE. PLAYING. AS. IF. YOU. TALKED. LIKE. THIS." Meaning, that I wasn't putting any phrasing into the piece.As others have said, it's analogous to...
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Concepts like this are very difficult to analyze analytically. It's very easy to miss the forest for the trees. Take it from someone who can tell you where all the trees are, but finding the forest is...
View ArticleAnswer by Malcolm Kogut for What's in a phrase?
I think your teacher doesn't know what S/He is talking about and is only regurgitating what S/He learned from a teacher who didn't know what they were talking about. S/He is probably talking about one...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Hughes for What's in a phrase?
A musical phrase is like a sentence in the English language (or any language for that matter) - it is a musical idea - as my teacher always told me.It makes complete sense on its own, it feels complete...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim for What's in a phrase?
In simple terms a phrase in music is very similar to a phrase in a spoken language.Imagine reading a phrase from a book, say, in English. Certain words, and even the syllables within those words, will...
View ArticleAnswer by user19146 for What's in a phrase?
Trying to make an objective measurement of "phrasing" is hard (if not impossible) because music is not intended to be listened to by laboratory instruments, but by humans.Therefore, what really matters...
View ArticleAnswer by nyedidikeke for What's in a phrase?
What's in a phrase?In music theory, a phrase is identified as a unit of rhythmic structure which has a complete musical sense of its own. It is mainly comprises of figures, motifs, and cells, and...
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Sometimes my teacher remarks to me that I should shape a phrase rather than just play the notes under a slur "mechanically".I think I'm improving there somewhat, but I don't really know what I'm doing...
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