The Theory of Music

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Phrasing is the art of presenting these divisions with proper balance, and exhibiting their relation- ship to each other. A knowledge of musical form is absolutely essential to good phrasing. The figure, however, is of more importance in music than the foot in poetry, for it is frequently developed, and 130 THEOBY OF MUSIC, often entire compositions are evolved from a simple figure, as a plant grows from a single seed.
N. B. The teacher will here illustrate this point freely from difierent mast
...er- works. The first move- ment of Beethoven's fifth symphony is the best pos- sible example. Wohlfahrt's ' * Guide to Composition " can also be read to good advantage by the student at this stage of study.
The figure which is used as the basis of a composi- tion is called *'the model, " and should generally be characteristic, and of marked rhythm, that its changes may be easily followed.
A very simple model is, however, here used as example, in order that the following modes of trans- formation may be understood.


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