"Phrasing. The art of dividing a melody into groups of connected sounds so as to bring out its greatest musical effect…"

"The art of phrasing by a performer is often instinctive and is one of the features by which a supreme artist may be d…"

"The art of phrasing is essential for expressiveness in music. The impact of a musical phrase is dependent on how it i…"

"Phrasing is always something essentially personal. It has really no fixed laws [...] and depends wholly on the musica…"

"No two artists phrase the same passage in exactly the same manner"

"[...] Phrasing, like other more aesthetic branches [...], is one of those things for which a detailed scheme of instr…"

"Phrasing/musicality is not slavishly following a musical phrase, but rather a prolonging or a shortening of the physi…"

"[...] inherent limitations of musical notation itself: no single slur mark can possibly capture the multifarious grou…"

"Phrasing. Most teachers are referring to some degree of phrasing with or without rubato when they admonish a student …"

"Upon a careful analysis of this term phrasing as it is understood and used by scholarly musicians, what exactly do we…"