The specific way words are chosen and arranged to express an idea; or the act of dividing music into phrases.
From 'phrase' (Greek 'phrasis,' to speak), combined with '-ing.' The word originally meant 'a way of speaking.'
Musicians and comedians both understand that phrasing is everything—the identical joke told with different phrasing lands completely differently, proving that how you say something matters as much as what you say.
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