Many are ordinary hymn tunes, mostly composed in four-bar phrases and sung in multiple verses.
The sixteen-bar strain is often structurally divided into 4 four-bar phrases, the third phrase repeating the first.
Finally there was an extended back-and-forth, as the trumpeters traded eight- and four-bar phrases.
Very few would be able to achieve something like the musical equivalent: set down two four-bar melodic phrases, the second answering the first.
His solos have a rounded completeness, each four-bar phrase balanced or contrasted with the next, a string of sentences that read as paragraphs.
The tune groups itself into four-bar phrases.
Pollack also notes that the repeated cell is seven bars long, which means that a different chord begins each four-bar phrase.
The four-bar phrases that open these pieces are almost identical in most musical aspects: key, harmony, voicing, register, and basic as well as harmonic rhythm.
The players also traded four-bar phrases in face-offs that were no less serious delivered with a smile.
This 256-measure chaconne takes a plaintive four-bar phrase through a continuous kaleidoscope of musical expression in both major and minor modes.