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musical phrase

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Noun1.musical phrase - a short musical passage
melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, tune, strain, air, line - a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
musical passage, passage - a short section of a musical composition
ligature - (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
ostinato - a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition


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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.
 
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