When she had finished her first exercise she stood still in the middle of the room and sang a
musical phrase that particularly pleased her.
Through the closed doors came the sounds of the discreet staccato accompaniment of the orchestra, and a single female voice rendering distinctly a
musical phrase. The door opened to let the box-opener slip through, and the phrase drawing to the end reached Vronsky's hearing clearly.
It befell, however, that Miss Dora Finch, sitting near Newman in the box, discoursed brilliantly, not only during the entr'actes, but during many of the finest portions of the performance, so that Newman had really come away with an irritated sense that Madame Alboni had a thin, shrill voice, and that her
musical phrase was much garnished with a laugh of the giggling order.
As an actress, she made every
musical phrase stretch and yearn.
When I tell my students to use more air, some literally put more air through the mouthpiece and play louder, some take this as a directive to aim their air towards a target, and others take this to mean make a
musical phrase.
"Condancing" through the overall harmonic rhythm intuitively reveals the hypermetric groupings where each measure can serve as a "beat." Feeling the connection over the barlines to each new bass note creates a cohesive
musical phrase.
He is grateful to every coach who has patiently corrected or helped him understand his music better--"from every double consonant to every
musical phrase, coaches are the unsung heroes of our industry and we can never thank them enough." He is also indebted to people who have been honest with him.
To me, a lot of the contrast between these approaches is shown at the end of a
musical phrase: where Sharp would use a fermata, or nothing at all, assuming his musically literate readers would understand what was required (if only to draw breath), Grainger would attempt to measure that pause and then try and shoehorn the effect into conventional staff notation.
Most country songwriters, when they're stuck for a line, find their mind reaching for just the right word or the right
musical phrase. Not Putman.
The songs are designed to be looped; they begin and end with the same
musical phrase. One of the songs is a live and contains a vocal portion, and the remaining sixteen tracks are instrumental for maximum flexibility in placement in your video or session.
Tan says that the elongation of her limbs often requires a lengthened
musical phrase. "I need a little more time to get ready for a preparation than another dancer who is more compact," she says.
Children's voices have an extra purity and strength; the innocence with which they sing often complex sentiments in the music can give a
musical phrase extra meaning.