' (German for ''sentence'', ''movement'', ''set'', ''setting'') is any single member of a

musical piece Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...

, which in and of itself displays a complete sense, (

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1976: 841) such as a sentence,

phrase In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English language, English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adject ...

, or movement.

Notes

Sources

*Riemann (1976). Cited in

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques Jean-Jacques Nattiez (; born December 30, 1945) is a French musicologist and ethnomusicologist active in Canada, who is seminal figure in music semiology. Professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal since 1972,. he studied semiolo ...

(1990). ''Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music'' (''Musicologie générale et sémiologue'', 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). . Formal sections in music analysis German words and phrases {{music-theory-stub