The student may choose to perform two short examples, one to demonstrate technical proficiency and another featuring tone quality, phrasing and musical sensitivity.
I feel in safe hands.... Tone, phrasing, projection.
His control of tone, phrasing and emotional inflection influenced female singers from Big Maybelle to Madonna, who said he was "the only singer who makes me cry".
Then, in the case of a musician, all the essentials coalesce -- projection, tone, phrasing, technique, character, style, color, rhythm, blending, singing -- to create this cauldron which ignites into deep insight and improvisation and passion.
Through their visual masterpieces we could learn nearly all the aspects of good composition, like color (timbre), tone, phrasing, form, contour, and the use of foreground, mid-ground and background.
The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music.
She plays with unusual strength and focus, using her full-bodied tone to phrase assertively.
A gesture, an inflection, a tone or phrase that unlocks a world.
He played with sweet tone, deliberate phrasing and vigor in the rollicking Hungarian-style third movement.
Ms. Mattila sang with radiant and rich tone, elegant phrasing and affecting expressivity.
Ms. Borodina brought her smoky, silken tone, artful phrasing and dramatic sensitivity to Dalila.
