Phrase Analysis

Question 1

form & analysis

Answer 1

• form and analysis is how the music is structure, it is the basic break down of music allowing us to see what’s going on in the musical piece
• • this is the essence of music theory
• a phrase is a complete musical thought in a piece
• • an indicator of the end of the phrase is a musical cadence
• • we use the lower case alphabet to identify phrases in analysis (a, a’, b, b’, …) the ‘ is to show the prime of the phrase
• • a period is a grouping of phrases in a unit of time

Question 2

the study of musical phrases and how they function in pieces of music si called __________

Answer 2

• phrase analysis

Question 3

a collection of musical phrases is called a ______

Answer 3

• hyphen

Question 4

when analyzing vocal music, phrases can usually be marked according to how the ________ are structured

Answer 4

• lyrics

Question 5

even if two phrases are extremely similar, we still label them with different letters (a, b, etc.)

Answer 5

• false

Question 6

_________ usually mark the end of phrases

Answer 6

• cadences