Meanings of musical phrase in English

It was a nocturne with a recurring musical phrase running through it.

At the first musical phrase, they circle around; at the second, they gracefully part and join again.

Rhythm gives life to every musical phrase.

Then she apologised, saying: Even one's rector must wait for a musical phrase to reach its period.

And Climate Emergency was the "least musical phrase on the whole list but possibly the most important".

As he dozed off a musical phrase rang in his ears as distinctly as if the orchestra were there.

They kept up an undertone of humming in a minor key; occasionally breaking into a short musical phrase in full voice.

Quite little children will take pleasure in completing a musical phrase of which the first few bars have been given them.

Differences between activated brain regions exist between musicians and nonmusicians when listening to a particular vocal part of a musical phrase.

It was like finding something you'd lost, or when a musical phrase you've been looking for suddenly comes back to you.

The verse was one of her favourites, and she smiled vaguely, like one who recognizes in the distance a familiar musical phrase.

Universal had contended that the sampling of the famous musical phrase was a fair use for which a license or payment wasn't required.

But before he could finish his musical phrase, the maddened Bosja had seized his scimitar, and rushed like a bull at the partition.

It creates a spiritual atmosphere by means of a musical phrase which precedes the hero, which he seems to radiate forth from any distance.

The old man had been whistling to himself, a tuneless torrent of notes that refused to conform itself to any sort of musical phrase.

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.