Brainlag MusicThe shape of a piece: phrases and their lengths, the climax of a melody, question-and-answer phrases, and the forms longer pieces take.
Phrases and their lengths
A phrase mark shows a musical sentence: read the bar number where it starts and where it ends, and count both bars and every bar between.
Grade 6 extracts usually move in 4-bar phrases. A phrase mark spans whole bars; a slur over two or three notes is not a phrase mark.
The rest of this lesson and its 6 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.
Screen 1 of 5, free to read.
- 6 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
- Anything you get wrong is saved to your flashcards