6/8/2023 0 Comments Mos def auditorium sample![]() (1) After all, nearly every definition of phrase focuses on some coordination of melody and harmony thus, given that hip-hop normatively lacks melody and often has minimal harmonic motion, “phrase” would seem to be an inapplicable construct. In hip-hop analysis, it is tempting to discard the idea of phrase altogether. ![]() ![]() Definitions that rely on subjective experience tend to capture well the essence of a phrase but lack music-theoretical rigor, while definitions that pin down specific melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic features are often only relevant to a narrow body of music. Musicians know a phrase when they hear one, but it has proven quite difficult to agree upon a precise definition, particularly one that applies across different repertoires. ![]() In her recent work on post-tonal music, Anabel Maler writes: The phrase, for all that it looms large in any theory of form and formal function, is an alarmingly slippery concept, reluctant to be tied to any particular length or content. Copyright © 2020 Society for Music Theory
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