MUSICAL PASSAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical passage mean? 

• MUSICAL PASSAGE (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL PASSAGE has 1 sense:

1. a short section of a musical composition

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL PASSAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL PASSAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short section of a musical composition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

musical passage; passage

Hypernyms ("musical passage" is a kind of...):

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical passage"):

allegro (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner)

allegretto (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro)

andante (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow)

forte (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly)

fortissimo (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly)

intro (a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music)

musical phrase; phrase (a short musical passage)

cadence (the close of a musical section)

cadenza (a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music)

largo ((music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner)

adagio ((music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully))

recitative (a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech)

modulation; transition (a musical passage moving from one key to another)

impromptu (a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation)