Phrasing

Definitions

1. The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
2. The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.

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Examples

“But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place⟳ of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.”

“I found myself truly moved by a stage⟳ event for the first time in years. I found myself humming tunes that one might not rightfully call⟳ tunes. Days later, I still remember⟳ these musical phrasings in little swatches of sound⟳.”

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