The phrase "musical technique" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when describing a particular approach or way of playing an instrument or writing music. For example, "John is a master of various musical techniques, from classical to jazz."
Musicality can transcend sheer musical technique and to some extent even interpretive skills.
For many it has proved an effective way to acquire musical technique.
The new technologies may reinforce the old prejudice, resurrected by Mr. Kennicott, that film composers lack traditional musical technique.
He is something of a father figure, dispensing life lessons as well as wisdom about musical technique.
Each of these genres has a long, convoluted history, involving innovations in musical technique occasioned by practical matters of performance, dance-steps, myth, exploitation, wicked humor.
A jazz fan taken to a rock concert might admire the musical technique, but he probably wouldn't make an ecstatic rush to the stage.
The use of African American musical techniques, images and conceits in popular music largely by and for white Americans has been widespread since at least the mid-19th century songs of Stephen Foster and the rise of minstrel shows.
By the mid-19th century, a distinctly African American folk tradition was well-known and widespread, and African American musical techniques, instruments and images became a part of mainstream American music through spirituals, minstrel shows and slave songs.
"Amazing Grace" is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.
But patterns of repetition aren't just musical techniques for composers to play with.
This relates to packaging and presentation as well as musical techniques.
