Phrasing is the clear, lucid and articulated realization of these small unified musical segments. Phrasing is aided in performance by proper breathing, dynamic flow, note articulation and proper pauses. It was once used to describe the female lead in an opera. Now this term has come to connotate a woman with an inflated ego. Though refrains can refer to elements of instrumental music, they are more appropriately associated with vocal music.
Refrains are regularly repeated sections of music that most often occur in larger forms of music.
Typical strophic songs will contain a number of verses, often scored for soloists, each one of which is followed by a refrain sung by a chorus. Register Register refers specifically to the tonal range of a particular voice, instrument or composition. The register is simply described as the highest and lowest notes accessible. Compass is synonymous with register but register can also refer to an organ stop and it can be used to refer to the specific pitch of an instrument class. Any performance of a musical work is a rendition.