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unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections

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Period built of two five-bar phrases in Haydn's Feldpartita in B♭, Hob. II:12. Diagram of a period consisting of two phrases

In music theory, a phrase (Greek: φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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