In music theory , a phrase ( Greek : φράση ) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures , motifs , and cells , and combining to form melodies , periods and larger sections .
10-454: Sthayi or Asthaayi is an initial phrase or line of a fixed, melodic composition in Hindustani music . It is a way of systematizing the parts of a composition. The Sthayi part of a Dhrupad is the first of four stanzas and uses the middle octave's first tetrachord and the lower octave notes. Sthayi means an octave. Shadjam to Nishadham is called sthayi or an octave. It is called
20-486: A period. However, the absolute span of the phrase (the term in today's use is coined by the German theorist Hugo Riemann ) is as contestable as its pendant in language, where there can be even one-word-phrases (like "Stop!" or "Hi!"). Thus no strict line can be drawn between the terms of the 'phrase', the 'motiv' or even the separate tone (as a one-tone-, one-chord- or one-noise-expression). Thus, in views of Gestalt theory ,
30-436: A phrase as "Any group of measures (including a group of one, or possibly even a fraction of one) that has some degree of structural completeness . What counts is the sense of completeness we hear in the pitches not the notation on the page. To be complete such a group must have an ending of some kind … . Phrases are delineated by the tonal functions of pitch. They are not created by slur or by legato performance ... . A phrase
40-400: 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 cadence ." Edward Cone analyses the "typical musical phrase" as consisting of an "initial downbeat , a period of motion, and a point of arrival marked by a cadential downbeat". Charles Burkhart defines
50-459: A position. There are basically three sthayis but five sthayis are correct too. This article about a music genre is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Phrase (music) A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence . Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody , harmony , and rhythm . Terms such as sentence and verse have been adopted into
60-433: Is a repetition of the second or in which, for whatever reason, the antecedent-consequent relationship is absent". 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 performance." The term
70-422: 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." In common practice phrases are often four bars or measures long culminating in a more or less definite cadence . A phrase will end with a weaker or stronger cadence, depending on whether it is an antecedent phrase or a consequent phrase, the first or second half of
80-400: The term of 'phrase' is rather enveloping any musical expression which is perceived as a consistent gestalt separate from others, however few or many beats, i. e. distinct musical events like tones, chords or noises, it may contain. 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
90-400: The vocabulary of music from linguistic syntax. Though the analogy between the musical and the linguistic phrase 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." John D. White defines
100-455: Was popularized by William Rothstein's Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music . Techniques include overlap, lead-in, extension, expansion, reinterpretation and elision. 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
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