In music a sentence is "the smallest
period in a
musical composition that can give in any sense the
impression of a complete statement." It "may be defined as a
period containing two or more
phrases, and most frequently ending with some form of
perfect cadence." (Macpherson n.d.: 25)
Source
-
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and
Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie
générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn
Abbate (1990).
ISBN 0691027145.
- Macpherson (n.d.).