WordNet
n. a short musical passage [syn: phrase]
Usage examples of "musical phrase".
She had felt this way, standing in the wings before an entrance in the Music Center, so she took three deep breaths, clearing her lungs and diaphragm as she would if she were about to sing a long musical phrase.
His anger was like a single musical phrase to which in an opera several lines are sung which are entirely different from one another, if one studies the words, in meaning and character, but which the music assimilates by a common sentiment.
The earlier the memory, the more firmly it seems attached to a musical phrase or snippet of lyrics.
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.
Down again to the original musical phrase, but this time the baritone quality was tinged with scorn.
The dancers' challenge and the response of the Firvulag men blended into a rapport of almost palpable eroticism- One short musical phrase, almost shouted by the spectators, cued the women to leap one by one into the air.