At David's fourth and final meeting, his tempo was still not even, but he made very definite improvement in that I could hear his standard notation portion as actual musical phrases, instead of notes laboriously delivered one after another.
While Green-tailed Towhees are often difficult to see, they give their presence away with characteristic ascending, catlike Mew Calls, and breeding males become conspicuous when singing their diverse Song, which consists of short phrases of jumbled notes and trills.
(A rough analogy can be made with the way a singer phrases a multiplicity of notes within a single breath). Many factors work to make the spectator perceive a series of movements as a phrase.
Springsteen's distinctive compositional method involves the permutation and re-examination of familiar phrases, shuffling sequences of notes or words from one song to another until they find their place.
Both Chopin's Ballades No. 2 and No. 3 at times seemed disjointed, with indistinct voicing, rushed phrases and blurs of notes that rendered the overall flow and architecture incoherent.
Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl differs from other Glaucidium in its overall paler coloration, size, and voice; the song is a short phrase of 5 7 notes.
Conducting Rossini, by contrast, requires innumerable decisions about how to phrase each sequence of notes.
Playing in his ragged, stuttering phrases, he made strings of notes crumble into noise, then recohere toward graceful endings.
As the veteran tenor saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath observes: "McPherson has that same kind of unpredictable bubbling up of notes in phrases that Charlie Parker had.
It is the timeless vocal beauty of the actual sequences of notes and phrases he could come up with, and the feeling of pure living joy of playing they can communicate".
