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Sentence (music) - Definition |
| Related Words: Action, Adage, Address, Affirmation, Analects, Answer, Aphorism, Apostrophe, Article, Assertion, Award, Axiom, Blacklist, Blame |
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In music a sentence is "the smallest period in a musical composition that can give in any sense the impression of a complete statement,<...> which may be defined as a period containing two or more phrases, and most frequently ending with some form of perfect cadence." (Macpherson (title) n.d.: 25)
Source
- Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0691027145.
- Macpherson (n.d.).
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